Hello! Welcome everyone! This is my new story, Sarang Hae Yo! I love you! Kyaaaa!
Mostly I would write about Prosecutor Kim Young Ju, coz I love that man! Kyaaa!
Oh, and Kim Na Na and Lee Yun Seong? They would be the lesser characters here. thanks!
Chapter 1 – Shin Hyun Hwa
Fate has a strange name of making those who are destined to be with each other get together, regardless of how awkward or strange the situation is. Before there is Lee Yun Seong and Kim Na Na, there is Lee Jin Pyo and Shin Hyun Hwa, and in between them, there is Kim Young Ju and Soo Young Heon. These are destined lovers for life.
In Thailand…
The sound of the office phone rang and shatters the silence in the house of Dr. Shin Hyun Hwa, surprising her in her midst of making coffee. The sound of the ringing phone sounded almost desperate, and she couldn't help but to wonder as to who the call might be from.
It couldn't have been from the hospital, she thought to herself. She only gives the hospital her hand phone number. It'll be far easier to contact her by. Her house phone rarely rang at all for the past 2 years in this house. Only the owner of this house knew her house number. Thinking back, the thought that that maybe the nice house owner has really planned a farewell party for her crossed her mind, and she couldn't help but to chuckle to herself.
She knew that the house owner works as a regular staff at a private ground not far from here. She also knew that the private ground is doing something thoroughly illegal, and bad enough that not even the police have enough power to take them down. She sighs to herself. She doesn't need to know so much about this place. After all, she'll be leaving the week after this. Her contract with the hospital has ended, and she wanted to try something new at Korea. Seoul, perhaps, since it is the heart of the motherland. She smiles to herself as she walks towards the phone.
Picking it up on the 4th ring, the 24 year old young doctor smiles to herself and said, "Hello? Shin Hyun Hwa."
"Dr. Shin," a frantic tone called out to her. Immediately, her smile disappears.
"What is it?" she ask in to the phone. She'd know that voice anywhere. It was the house owner. She deduced to herself that something might have happened at the private grounds for him to sound this frantic.
"Please, Dr. Shin," the panicked house owner said in his very broken English. "Please, help the Captain! He's injured badly! There's so much blood…He's dying!"
From the background sound, she could hear someone kept calling 'Appa! Appa!' Korean? She thought to herself. No, that couldn't be. I'm the only Korean here in Thailand. At least, I've never seen one in 2 years time here.
Swallowing her saliva, Dr. Shin nodded to herself and said to the house owner. "I'll be there in 10 minutes. If he's bleeding, use a clean cloth to put pressure on the wound. Keep him awake. If he sleeps, then he's as good as dead."
Practically slamming the phone down, Hyun Hwa grabbed her coat and her bag of 'goodies' and ran out of her house.
The place was in total chaos when she gets there. There was also a lot of noise in the house. Running up at full speed, nearly got shot by a guard and another 2 minutes later spent to argue with the guard that she is a fully qualified doctor, she finally arrives in a room choked full of the scent of blood. There is already another doctor there in her place, but that doctor doesn't appears to be good enough.
That was also the time when she saw the captain for the first time.
His son, a 17 year old – now frantic and panicking and crying – boy got stuck to his bedside, begging him to not die and asks him for direction on what to do. His father, the captain, appears to have fainted from blood loss. He did not respond to the call of his son, and the doctor standing behind the young son just stood there and kept blabbing on and on about 'operate quickly' and 'quickly' and 'we had to'.
And that is also when her instinct kicks in.
Dropping her bag, Hyun Hwa shoves the useless doctor aside and pulled up the 17 year old boy.
"You want your dear father to live," Hyun Hwa said while glaring fiercely into his frightened pair of eyes. "Then you stay her and help me until I kick you out. Understood?"
"Korean?" the boy stuttered.
"You want or not?!" the doctor exclaims.
Desperate for someone to save his father, the boy nodded his head vigorously and stood up, turning around and grabbed a clean towel to replace the bloodied cloth on what was left of the captain's leg.
Next, Hyun Hwa turns towards the captain. She had to admit, he is in a really bad shape. His wounds appear to have been completely bombed, bones and all, and there is only half-a-leg left to him. Heaving a sigh, Hyun Hwa pulls him up from the bed and slaps the captain as hard as she could. Her action shocks everyone in the room temporarily into silence. This is the captain they're talking about. He is cruel, he is cold hearted, and the most important thing is that he is absolutely fierce. You slap his face; your head comes off in another second.
When the captain remains motionless, the young doctor slapped him another few times and smiles triumphantly when the captain flutters his eyes tiredly at her.
She smirks to herself when she realizes that the captain actually glares at her. Grabbing the back of his neck, Hyun Hwa slammed her forehead on his as hard as she could without hurting herself. The captain grunts in pain made her smile.
"Don't go sleepin' yet, alright?" Hyun Hwa said cheerfully. Resting her forehead against the captains, Hyun Hwa smiled at him and said soothingly, "I am going to save you, and you will not die, alright? Bear with me for a while, and you'll be safe."
"Please save my father, doctor," the young boy pleaded with her. Looking up at him, the young boy continues. "I caused this…I'm so sorry…but please save him…don't let him die, please…"
"Don't worry, boy," Hyun Hwa smiles reassuringly to the boy. "Nobody has ever died when they're in my hands yet, and I don't plan for that to happen anyway. He'll be fine."
It was long hours before any of them finally gets their rest. She has stitched the wound on the captain's leg and wrapped a thick and tight bandage on the stump. After she has done more than she could and noticing that the young boy looked rather green in the face, she sends him out of the room and tells him to clean himself up.
"But I want to stay with father!" The boy said, almost howling with sadness. There was such a frantic look in his eyes, and she felt sympathy reaching out towards the boy.
Patting his shoulder, the rather short doctor said gently to him, "Too many people in one room would make this a bad environment for the patient to wake up and recover. It's too stuffy. Until he is better, I suggest that you get your rest, get me some more clean clothes and wait until your father calls you back in. Alright?"
Defeated, the boy nodded and shuffles out of the room tiredly while the doctor smiles pitifully at his back. Such a young boy for such burden. The world is getting crueler while she ponders what she is going to do in the future.
It was a while more before the captain woke up. Before that, she has cleaned him up a little. His face, arm and neck are the only place reachable, and she didn't like how his cloth is – soak with grime and blood – ideal for bacterial growth. Eww.
So, when the captain woke up, she prepares another basin of water and added a little soap in them. Sitting down on the side of the bed, Hyun Hwa smiles to the captain and asks him, "How are you feeling now, captain?"
Hyun Hwa is told that the captain never sleeps properly on the bed. His half-sit, half-lie on the bed is the best they could give him. Seeing as he is half-sitting up on the bed, it'll make everything more easily for her to work on.
The captain appears to be angry at some sort of thing from the moment he wakes up. Glaring at her, the captain lashes out his arm and grabbed a hold of her slim neck. Gripping them tightly, the captain glares fire into her and said angrily, "How dare you hit me!?"
Hyun Hwa, not liking the fact that the captain is squeezing her neck, lashes out as well and pinched his nose with one hand while the other kept him from opening his mouth to breath. "If I don't hit you, you'd long be dead! You would be sauntering off to La La Land and leaving your young son behind with all these burdens to bear. Would you kindly remove your hand so that I can let you breath? I daresay you're looking a little blue, captain."
Jin Pyo had no idea just how she could make him let go of her. He is a cruel man, and he knew it. She is just another doctor. If she dies in his hand, then he could just easily replace her with another one.
She was a very little thing. If he could stand up right now, he'd reckon her head to reach only right up to his shoulder. Her hair is in disarray from the day's event, her face flushed from the heat of the house and by him cutting off her air supply. Her eyes – however – are the strongest and fiercest eyes he had ever seen on a woman. If they are not stuck in this current predicament, he would have thought her to look rather beautiful.
As per her wish, he removes them slowly, letting his finger lingering around her neck and brushes against her collarbone. He could feel her hold on his nose slackens a little, and he willed himself to breath slowly so as to not look as if he is really in need of air.
However, she seems to be able to see through him, and she attacks him mercilessly.
"Breath, captain!" she exclaimed almost desperately to him, as if he were a petulant child refusing to eat veggies. "You're blue! Breathe properly like a man in need of air! For God's sake, stuff your stupid pride off from your face for a while!"
The captain immediately removes his initial thought about her being beautiful. She is ugly! The ugliest he has ever seen, and the first thing he will do when he recovers is strangle her little neck until she's quiet and dead.
Shrugging, Hyun Hwa stood up and rummage through a nearby cloth cupboard. Fishing out a decent black cotton shirt, Hyun Hwa smiles at the captain sweetly and said to him in her annoying all-too cheerful tone, "Let's change your clothes, shall we?" When the captain gave her a raised-eyebrow-look, she held up the clean shirt and said to him, "Comparing those-" she gestured at his clothes with her chin. "-to these, your clothes are soaked and soiled with grime and oil and sweat and blood. It's disgusting and a heaven for germs to live in. Come on, change them."
Grabbing the cloth from her, the captain glares at her and said coldly, "I can change myself."
Hyun Hwa sighed. She could never comprehend as to why a fully grown man would want to act like a child at times just so to keep their dignity. Dignity is nothing. She deduced to herself that perhaps he is a soldier, and still is, for him to be this prideful.
Reaching forward, Hyun Hwa grabbed the cloth and sighed again when the captain refuses to let go of the cloth. "Let me help you."
Not letting her win, the captain tugged harder on the cloth and said, "No-"
Releasing her hold on the cloth, Hyun Hwa grabbed a hold of both of the captain's cheek and said in her coldest tone, staring icily steadily into the captain's angry pair of eyes. "Let. Me. Help. You."
Their faces are so close that he could practically feel her breath fanning his face and lips. Her eyes, previously strong and fierce, now grew cold and icy. She is determined to help him, and she wouldn't accept 'no' as an answer. Softening her gaze, she leans in further and rests her forehead against the captain's forehead and sighed tiredly. "Let me help you, captain. It's the least I can do."
He allowed himself a moment of luxury. Being a man choked full of revenge, he couldn't spare enough time for a woman at all. Now that there is one, he finds that he appreciates all that she has. She is daring, she is brave, and she is beautiful – that he had had to admit to himself. She is brimming with charisma and kindness that he couldn't help but to want to admire her more up close. Her eyes – a normal dark brown like any other Asian's – appears to hypnotize him more up close. They're not plain. In fact, they're the most beautiful shade he has ever seen on a woman. Such sensuality, and – dear God, he thought to himself – she smells so heavenly.
Gradually, he lets go of the cloth and pulled her hand off his face. However much he desires someone, he couldn't bear to let go of the revenge and put it aside just for someone. Mu Yeol has suffered too much under the hands of their Motherland, and so do the rest of the 19 people. Fate spares his life just so that justice could be brought upon those who make them suffer so.
Hyun Hwa smiles sweetly at the captain and asks him to remove his shirt. He does so at her wish, and she helps him to clean him up. He had to remember to breathe properly when her hand holding the wet cloth moves around his abs. It was a long while before she finally dries him off properly and held out the cloth for him to wear.
"Alright!" she announces happily. "All done. You're clean and comfortable now, I presume?"
He looked up at her smiling face and muses to himself. Surely she is the most infuriatingly unreasonable and unpredictable woman on Earth? Her actions are random, and her smile is annoyingly infuriating, as if she is happy to help a man like him. Did she not know that he could kill her in seconds if he so wishes to?
"I need to see my son," he stated simply, and she smiles in approval.
"Alright," she said gently, like a mother giving her approval for her child to buy ice creams. "I'll call him in then."
For a while, she stood outside the room. She hangs around the place and plays with the broken glass on the floor. There was suddenly a very pleasant smell of chicken porridge that her stomach growled loudly to embarrass her.
"Hungry are we, doctor?" a short stoutly man came by with a large pot of porridge and a few metal bowls and utensils. He looks cheerful with a wide smile on his face. Instantly, she likes him.
"Yes, very. Is that for the captain?" Hyun Hwa asked the man.
The short stoutly man answered with a vigorous nod. "And half of it is yours. You should stuff yourself with something nutritious to take care of the captain well. He's a hard man to care for…"
Hyun Hwa laughed out merrily. "I know. Thank you for the food, anyway. They smell so nice!"
"Well," the man rubbed the back of his head shyly. "I used to be a cook for an ocean-going vessel. I'm good with food."
It was another long while later before she is allowed back into his room. His son came out with such a hard determined face that for a moment, she fears for his Fate. Such a young person having to bear such a fate, she feels sad for him.
Carrying the pot of porridge back into the room, she diligently scooped them into one big bowl and settles with sitting herself by the captain's bedside.
"Captain!" she called out merrily. "Time for dinner! You need lots of food to recover, so you'd better start eating now."