characters: wonho / paramedic!reader; partner!jooheon
genre: fluff / warning: mentions of blood and alcohol
word count: 1.9k
summary:Â Wonho is drunk and injured and is convinced the medic cleaning his wounds is the cutest thing heâs ever seen. (based on this prompt)
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You have at least 5 more hours until you get to go home.
As you fill in the paperwork at the nurseâs station for the last case you brought into the hospital â a grouchy old man complaining of chest pains which turned out was only the big dinner he had yet he insisted you brought him in to a real doctor â you start feeling the fatigue of the night shift settling in. Nights are usually quiet around here for the EMTs, itâs quite rare something big happens. At weekends, the most frequent calls you get are from drunk youths puking their insides by the side of the road and their other pissed friends thinking theyâre on the brink of death, when itâs really that fifth Jagerbomb they shouldnât have had making its way out (Those calls should be coming in any second now). Thereâs always this inner struggle between the part of you who wants more and the part of you that knows more calls means people are likely suffering. So, to avoid the pressing feeling of guilt that comes with hoping to get dispatched on a good case, you instead count down the minutes until you get to return to the warmth of your bed at home.
Jooheon, your partner, trots down the hallway, his shoulders slumped, and comes up to you, letting out a deep sign as he leans onto the desk. He has just made sure the patient got taken care of by one of the doctors and doesnât seem too thrilled about waiting around for it.
âThis old manâŠâ he sighs again for emphasis and shakes his head, âwhat can I do?â Itâs a rhetorical question. Nothing, thereâs nothing to do when someone is too stubborn to take your word that theyâre in no danger and youâve been doing this job long enough to know thereâs no use arguing. âJust promise me you wonât let me become an old grump, okay?â
âI donât plan on knowing you that long,â you laugh, capping your pen and handing the finished paperwork to the nurse behind the desk. Truthfully, Jooheon is too sweet to ever become a scrooge. In his old age heâll probably the much too happy grandpa handing out bird feed to all the children in the park and getting mistaken for a creep because thereâs no way anyone is just that kind without ulterior motives.
âHey!â Jooheon fakes outrage and watches you walk away from him towards the ambulance you share. âGramps there just called me a taxi driver, can you at least be nice to me for a second?â
âNot in my job description, love.â
âAish, what am I ever going to do with you?â
There are only a couple of people you really love sharing a shift with and Jooheon is one of them. Heâs smart, capable, has great reflexes and somehow always manages to calm down screaming children, which pisses you off especially because more often than not itâs you the children are screaming because. Youâre not great with children and one day youâll have to accept that. Not today though; today you can tease him for being bad with old people.
Jooheon gets into the driver seat and waits. âTen bucks the next call is the first drunk people call of the night.â
âIâm not going to bet on something I know Iâll lose, Jooheon,â you say. âHonestly, Iâm surprised itâs almost 1AM and we havenât had any yet.â
âMaybe people got a late start today.â
Just then the radio line rustles and the dispatcher voice breaks through, announcing the new call: partygoers fell through an old store front, leaving some cut up and bleeding. Jooheon swiftly answers back and switches on the engine.
âDamn, I could be 10 bucks richer right now.â
It takes five and a half minutes for you to get to the address in the old part of town, which is now mostly bars and clubs, and the scene looks pretty much as you expected it to. The entire store front is lying in hundreds of pieces on the ground, two guys and one girl with visible lacerations on their skin sitting on the edge of the sidewalk and another older man gesticulating frantically between his phone and the now shattered window â the owner, you expect. He doesnât look too pleased. Jooheon parks the ambulance in front of them and you get out first.
âOh thank god youâre finally here!â the owner cuts in front of you and you take a step back in surprise. âThese hooligans completely ruined my store, theyâre gonna pay for it! Iâm gonna press charges, Iâm gonna take it to courtââ
âSir, Iâm sorry, but you need to call the police for that. Now, are you injured?â
âNo. But my store!â
âIâm sorry, weâre medics,â you point back at the car, that says AMBULANCE in big bold letters; hard to miss. Frankly, you donât really care about his store and unless heâs injured, itâs not your job to care either. âPlease, call the police if you would like to report this.â Heâs visibly irritated by you now, but doesnât say anything else, thankfully.
Jooheon already has his gloves on when you get back to your task and you let out a disgruntled huff he understands too well as you slip yours on. Half of the battle doing this job is not losing your cool with people who donât seem to grasp what it is youâre supposed to do. And thatâs a lot of people from old man thinking youâre a taxi service to this guy thinking youâre the police to this one lady at the start of your shift who called you in to take her dog for a walk. Itâs impossible not to become even a little bit of a misanthrope doing this job.
âWe need to cleans the cuts, but doesnât look like any of you need stitches,â Jooheon flashes his best dimpled smile to the three sitting on the curb.
The girl shoots up, wobbles quite badly on her feet and nearly falls over, but manages to catch her balance just in time. âIâm calling dibs on the cute doctor!â she says, with what you assume is her trying to put on her most charming smile, but ends up being a lopsided grimace because sheâs drunk out of her wits. Jooheon doesnât argueâit would be pointless toâhe just takes her hand and guides her to the back of the ambulance where his kit is.
âI guess you two are stuck with me then,â you say looking at the two other guys. One of them starts giggling like mad and the other is about to fall asleep. None of them are complaining about pain, which is good.
âIâll go first,â the giggling guy stands up, but gets vertigo and threatens to topple over without extra support.
âHow about we donât go anywhere?â You help him sit back down and he grins at you. A cute grin, you notice; factually, objectively he has a very cute smile and you noticed, nothing wrong about that. You make sure heâs steady before you grab your own kit and take out the gauze and disinfectant. For some reason, he keeps giggling every time you do something. âWhatâs your name?â
He stops giggling and hums. âHoseok.â
âHoseok,â you repeat, he grins at the sound of his name. âHow did you manage to break that window?â You slowly dab the gauze over a bleeding cut on his forehead. Itâs not a deep cut, but the blood streaking down his face makes him look like heâs been through hell.
âDunno,â Hoseok does a full body shrug. âOne second we were here, then we were there and there was this big crash.â He giggles again when you push hair away from his face for easier access to clean him up. Thereâs something very infectious about his induced child-like happiness and you wonder if heâs like this when not under the influence. âFor what itâs worth I think youâre the cute doctor.â
The last sentence catches you off guard and a laugh escapes you. Hoseok seems proud of that because his lips curl up at the ends and you try to hide your own smile and focus on what youâre doing instead of how cute he is and despite the reek of alcohol emanating off his clothes. You put on the antibiotic cream over the cut and patch it up, moving to the next one. You can feel Hoseokâs eyes burning holes into you all the while, seemingly very taken with the way your hands move over all his bloody marks.
âYouâre very cute when youâre focused,â he interrupts. âYour eyebrows do this furrowing thing. Cute. I like cute.â
Heâs so drunk he can barely string together a sentence, you think, stop falling for it. You ignore him, choosing instead to try and finish him and move on to the other guy now lightly snoring next to you.
âAre all the doctors where you come from as pretty as you are?â he asks again, unbothered by the lack of replies. You purse your lips to try to hide a smile. You really want him to shut up. âI hope I get injured more often.â
âPlease donât!â you yelp. You really hope sober Hoseok knows better than to get himself hurt on purpose to score a date. Not that a date would ever be on the table, who mentioned anything about a date? âOkay, youâre done. Hoseok please promise me youâre not going to hurt yourself on purpose.â
âOh, youâre very cute when youâre serious.â
You sigh. âPromise.â
âOkay,â Hoseok giggles again. âBut I do want to see you again, you saved my life.â
âYou werenât in any life-threatening danger, Hoseok,â you say matter-of-factly as you wipe some blood off the other guyâs face. Heâs only half conscious and largely ignoring you.
Jooheon shows up a few minutes later to check up on you just as youâre trying to keep second guy, whose name you donât manage to find out, from going to sleep on the concrete.
âWe should call a cab for them,â he tells you then turns to Hoseok. âWould you like us to call a cab to take you home?â
âCanât we go in your car? Iâve always wanted to ride in an ambulance.â
âNO!â Jooheon blurts out and immediately realises he said it a few notches too high. The sting of being compared to a taxi just the previous hour must still hurt him. Hoseok flinches at the outright refusal and stares at you with pleading eyes. He lĂ„ooks like a lost puppy and you have to remind yourself again heâs stupidly drunk and youâre on a call, you shouldnât be flirting with a patient.
âDonât look at me, he said no already.â You quickly put the last patch on sleeping guy and close the kit. For once, you would actually want to say yes and take him home, but you know thatâs not going to happen tonight. Hoseok is still looking from you to Jooheon and back for several moments before you canât take any more of his big brown eyes and decide to dial up a taxi for the three of them. Theyâll have to deal with the police report when theyâre sober, to the ownerâs dismay and you can go on your way for the rest of the night.
âSheâs the cute doctor,â Hoseok grins at Jooheon, earning a pointed stare from your partner.
march 10th, 2018
i see your throwback thursday and raise you a self care saturday! im super grateful to my friend for getting me the sun and her flowers bc theres a 102% chance i wouldnât have bothered to get it myself (what! a! sweetie!)!Â