Okay, haha! Thanks for the comments and stuff!

"Torn rotator cuff…" Pete announced as he stepped away from the monitor. "Complete tear of the supraspinatus muscle… Partial tear of all the other ones."

"Guess this means surgery…"

"You're right." Pete nodded, "But I think we'll be able to deal with it arthroscopically. Which will make your recovery a bit easier."

"Sounds good…"

Pete nodded, "Now, don't get me wrong, you'll be in all sorts of pain even with the arthroscopic surgery."

"Already guessed so…"

Pete smirked, "OR we could always perform an amputation at the C3…"

"Pete, that one is getting old. I don't even think I would fall for it if I was drunk outta my mind!"

"Yeah… Guess I should find something new to trick you with…" Pete chuckled.

Jack nodded, then he winced as Pete manipulated his shoulder.

"Sorry…" Pete mumbled as he continued to move Jack's arm to test out his shoulder.

"Hey, one request…" Jack bit out through gritted teeth.

"What?"

"Don't pull that joke with the other guy…" Jack looked over at Pete, "The kid might be shaken up enough as it is…"

Pete nodded, "Okay boss… I'll behave…"

"Thanks…" Jack nodded.

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"Come in…" Alex answered at the knock on the door, seconds later a guy in a doctor's uniform walked in. He looked like he was of Mediterranean descent, and maybe a little shy of 40 years old. Somewhere between 34 and 42 anyway.

"Hey, I'm Peter Santorro. I'm the doctor Jack probably mentioned. Just call me Pete." The doctor, Pete, introduced himself with a friendly smile.

Kim watched his brother for a couple long seconds, smirking.

"Hey…" Pete repeated, "You with me soldier?"

Since his brother still didn't respond, Kim chose to answer for him. "Guess he zoned out a bit, you'll have to excuse him. Long week, I guess…"

"And I suppose you are the twin…"

Kim nodded, "Yep… I've been stuck with that guy for all my life…"

Pete chuckled. "Is he usually this quiet?"

Kim shook his head, "No, usually I have to threaten to knock him out to get him to shut up. Just give him a minute or so, I'm pretty sure he just had to restart his brain. Lord knows it's been collecting dust the last 20 something years…"

Pete laughed, and Kim looked over at Alex once again.

"Well, USUALLY it helps to make fun of him…" Kim sighed, "Usually…"

Pete nodded, "Yeah, my boys are starting to find special ways to push each other's buttons too… I figure the two of you must have that down to an art by now…"

"Your boys…?"

"Yeah, twins… They turned nine a couple of months ago." Pete grinned proudly.

"That's cute…" Kim grinned as he picked up a ballpoint pen and weighed it in his right hand. Looking up at Pete he winked and announced "Watch this…" right before he threw it at his brother.

"What the f-? Kim!" Alex snarled and snapped his head in Kim's direction.

"You took a little trip into some other dimension, I believe…"

"What?"

"You zoned out dude…" Kim clarified.

Blushing, Alex muttered something about 'San Francisco', and Kim could not keep from laughing. Not even when Alex shot him a warning glare.

"Okay, now that you're back with us again," Pete interrupted, "Maybe I could take a look at that knee of yours. I've looked at the scans and pictures of it, and surgery is necessary. But I think it would be practical to test your knee a little."

Alex managed to nod, but his words were lost in fear of making an even bigger fool of himself.

"Okay, promise this will just hurt a lot…" Pete winked, and the tall brunet in the bed reddened.

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Kim clasped his right hand over his mouth in an attempt to keep quiet, and avoid laughing. Which was the hardest task of the whole week.

'San Francisco' wasn't just a city in California. It was so much more.
A busy tourist destination. The location of Alcatraz Island. The place with the world famous Cable Cars, and the Golden Gate Bridge. The famous streets which had been portrayed in many fast paced action movie car chases. Lots of great sea food (and other sorts of food.) The fifth place Alex and Kim had been on a mission (back when they actually kept count…)
And… Oh yeah… It was famous for it's LGBTQ community.

Kim enjoyed this a little too much. Seeing his twin brother actually struggle to find his words was a seldom treat. Seeing his brother blush on top of all that? Perfect.

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Okay, that wink, that wink was unnecessary. It was hard enough to keep a straight face without that wink.

Alex swallowed hard and tried to nod. He could feel the heat creeping up his cheeks. Dammit, he was blushing. He shouldn't be blushing in front of this man. Nope. Bad timing.

But the deep brown eyes and the on-point black hair, with a side order of stubbles? Dammit! He was just as weak for that as he was for that as he was for girls with full lips, beach hair and tattoos.

"It was the right one? Right?"

Alex nodded, he couldn't do anything else than that right now. He did not trust his voice, there was too great of a risk that his voice would be an octave too high. Best not to use it.

The doctor, Pete, unlocked the wheels on the bed and rolled the bed away from the wall. "Best for both of us if I don't have to stretch over you to check out your right leg…"

Alex nodded again, clearing his voice he dared uttering a short agreement.

Pete smiled, and Alex was glad he wasn't attached to some sort of heart rate monitor, that would have given him away.

Alex helped remove the blanket from where it was covering his leg, then he folded his hands over the now bunched up blanket now covering his private area. At least it felt a little bit reassuring knowing that no situation would be detected.

"Let's unstrap this brace… I won't be able to check it out with all that hiding it." The handsome doctor said with his hands hovering above one of the buckles.

Alex nodded, and Pete started undoing the brace.

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"Aw, that looks bad…" Pete grimaced as he got the first real look at the injured knee, "Must be pretty painful, huh?"

Alex nodded.

"You're not much of a talker today, are you?"

That comment made Kim laugh, loudly. "I know it probably sounds like a lie to you, but I am honest when I say that I normally I have to make threats to shut him up."

Pete chuckled, "Maybe it's the pain then…"

"I doubt it…" Kim chuckled, earning himself a glare from Alex.

"Yeah. Pain…" Alex nodded, staring hard at Kim while he answered.

Pete nodded and went on prodding at the exposed, heavily bruised knee. He stopped when the young man growled. "That was worse?"

"Hit a sore spot…" Alex nodded, his eyes squeezed shut.

"Sorry for that…" Pete winked again, "Told you it was gonna be painful."

Alex sucked in a sharp breath and nodded, "Guess you did…"

"And, you're talking. For a minute there I was afraid I had met a mute patient. –It's hard to do an exam when your victim isn't answering your questions…"

"Victim?" Alex almost laughed, his ability to speak was slowly coming back to him.

Pete nodded, "I can bet you that will be what you're feeling like in about a minute and a half…"

"You've got something gruesome planned for me doc?" Alex inquired.

"Yeah. I'm gonna test how your knee moves, trust me THAT won't be comfortable."

Alex nodded and started preparing himself for the pain to come.

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Kim grimaced at the sound his brother tried to silence. He knew it had to be bad for him to even flinch, for him to be a quarter inch away from screaming? Bad.

What he really wanted to do, was to knock the doctor out for causing his twin that much pain. His fingers were itching for it. He felt like he needed it. Needed to protect Alex.

He sat up a little straighter, leaned forward.

"Okay, that's one of the worse ones I've seen… We will let this rest here." the doctor frowned and placed his brother's leg back on top of the pillows.

Kim relaxed and sat back, knowing that his brother wouldn't be brought through more pain right now.

"As you probably already know, you need surgery to reconstruct your knee. You've torn all the major ligaments, ACL, PCL, MCL and LCL. And as an added bonus, you have a grade 3 tear of your Sartorius muscle at the height of your knee, as well as your patella tendon."

"That's bad, right?" Kim joined in, looking up at the doctor.

"It's not good…" Pete nodded, "A torn off muscle or tendon is no joke. And it hurts like hell."

Kim nodded.

"Now, there is a few ways we could repair your knee. We could use grafts from your own body, I can still take a graft from your hamstring muscles, and I can take grafts from your other leg too. But that will…"

"-That will make my other leg hurt too…" Alex nodded, "But my body is less likely to reject those grafts than ones from cadavers."

Pete nodded, "Yeah, you've been through this before. I saw that in your file."

Alex nodded, "Never this bad, but yeah…"

Kim almost chuckled, his brother was a weird one. He often played dumb, to the extent that Kim almost believed it himself. But then he could turn around and tell you exactly how a complicated machine was built and how it worked, or the chemical build up of C4. He also knew enough about anatomy to discuss it with great surgeons without sounding like someone who had just looked it up on Wikipedia five minutes ago. But he usually hid all that until it was necessary to use all that information. Which was weird, because science and facts seemed to be his comfort area.

"I take it I don't need to walk you through all the pros and cons of the different options…" Pete shrugged, "But would you like me to do it anyway?"

"No… Heard it all before." Alex smiled shyly.

"Would you like me to perform the surgery?"

Alex nodded, "Yeah, the way Jack spoke of you I already had my mind made up about that…"

Pete chuckled, "So he didn't scare you?"

Alex shook his head.

"Okay, that's good." Pete smiled, "Even though it results in a more invasive surgery and more pain, I would like to recommend taking grafts from the uninjured leg and using them to reconstruct your injured knee."

"Just do what you think is best doc…" Alex nodded.

"Okay, I'll schedule the surgery for tomorrow then. Don't eat or drink anything after midnight."

"Sir, yes sir…"

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After Pete left the room, Kim looked at Alex. "Bro, you're pathetic!"

"What?"

"You had ten whole minutes of being a braindead fish!" Kim chuckled, "And the thing that gets your tongue going is MEDICAL STUFF!"

Alex visibly swallowed, "So?"

"You could have flirted with him, that would have been less obvious I think!"

Alex shook his head, "Nah, I couldn't do that…"

"But you were interested? Or am I failing at detecting your 'type' again?"

"Hell yeah… He was fine!" Alex nodded, "But, he had a tan line from a wedding band."

Kim's eyebrows shot up at that comment. "He did…?"

"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure he only had it off because he was working. My guess is that it was hanging from that necklace he wore. The one that looked like it would be holding a set of dog-tags…"

Kim laughed, "You can't even hide that agent mind of yours for a second when we're alone, huh?"

"Says the guy who's always playing mind games, thinking about hostage situations and how to solve them?"

Kim chuckled, "Okay, you get a point for that one. But to my defense, me thinking through scenarios like that might actually end up saving our bacon sometime in the future…"

"Yeah, and me not flirting with a guy that IS married and about to cut my freaking leg open might be beneficial for MY health."

"Because of the 'married' thing or because of the 'cutting your leg open' thing?"

Alex shrugged, "Haven't figured that one out yet…"

"I'm pretty sure he understood you had a thing for him…" Kim teased.

"You know what? Screw you!" Alex shook his head, "You're a horrible little brother."

"-Twin. You're only seven minutes older…"

"You're technically still my little brother." Alex chuckled, "And I don't think he realized…"

"He noticed. No chance he didn't."

Okay. MACGYVER IS BACK ON TONIGHT! I CAN'T WAIT! (Also pretty ready for Hawaii Five 0)

(And yeah, I know this chapter was messy. It wouldn't cooperate.)