The winds felt nice. The vacation was nice. Doing routine jobs for months and none of those special missions; that most likely require him to risk his life as well as taking the life of the enemy, was nice.
In a way, it prevented him from thinking too much.
"That's what I do. I fight to save lives. But you protect lives while killing people. That's what you do."
"I'm sorry... but this isn't what I expected."
Eight months.
Eight months and those words still hurt.
xxx
He couldn't believe his eyes. Somehow, he wondered if there was such thing as fated love. Or was that just something coined up by dreamers and optimists? But still... the document in his hands did not lie.
[Haeseong Medical Team]
[List of volunteers]
[Team Leader: Professor Kang Moyeon]
For a moment, he found himself short of breath. What does this mean?
When he heard that the Haeseong Hospital would be sending a volunteer team over as well as a mobile facility to Mouru camp, he didn't really place any hope of meeting Kang Moyeon again. Considering... what were the chances that she could be part of the team? And she definitely wasn't aware that he was even stationed here all these while. What reason would she even come over? As if she would even want to... if she knew.
Yoo Sijin walked out of his office as he wanted to get some air.
Eight months. He thought he's got better at coping with things. No, that was a lie.
xxx
"What's with the sunglasses?"
He almost dropped the glasses as he turned towards Sergeant Seo. He shrugged.
"What? N-nothing! I mean... the sun was always so bright here. I might need it."
His friend didn't turn his eyes away from him. And somehow, that brought all the attention of the rest of Alpha Team towards him.
"Are you nervous?" Daeyoung asked again as he hastily shook his head. And before he could say anything Sergeant Gong suddenly spoke.
"You're nervous? Why? Oh! Was it because the volunteer team was from that Haeseong Hospital? Come to think, didn't you say there's this pretty doctor that you—hmph! Hmph!"
Without being ordered, both Sergeant Choi and Sergeant Im grabbed the youngest to silence him. And he was hoping that the three would not also become aware of his current dilemma. Fat chance. The helicopter landed and the ramp was let down. The others started to disembark as he shakily pulled himself up. He put on the sunglasses.
And now he hoped Kang Moyeon wouldn't see how nervous he was to see her again after so long.
