V. WONDERWORDS

“Jungkook-sshi!”

His head shot up from the phone once hearing his name and the eyes went slightly wide upon seeing doctor Park Chaeyoung running up to him on the hospital’s corridor.

Maybe the fate was on his side after all.

Jungkook tried to contact doctor Park for the whole night and later the day but without much effect. He came back home after everything Jimin told him just to face the fact he did not have her phone number. It left him only with Facebook but after going through the 100th profile of a girl named Park Chaeyoung he gave up.

“Doctor Park” Jungkook started, blinking rapidly “Actually, I’ve been trying to contact you somehow…I need to tell you something very important”

“Later” she took a deep breath and took the hair back from her slightly flushed face “I need a Thai translator for Lalisa Manoban. Now”

Jungkook did not need to be told twice as he paled and followed quickly after Chaeyoung, everything he wanted to tell her suddenly forgotten.

Lisa was his priority.

On the way to the 10th floor the redhead doctor briefly told him what was that about.

“First of all, no one can link you two together. Only I know the real reason why you’re here and it needs to be keep that way” Chaeyoung warned with a raised finger and while getting a nod from him she continued “Lalisa Manoban had a terrible attack and she seems to not understand and speak Korean as the outcome. She has been in shock for the past two days and most probably still is, but we need to talk to her”

Jungkook felt his fists tightening and it did not miss Chaeyoung’s sharp eye.

“Please” she put a hand on his shoulder, squeezing it both softly and firmly “You need to remain absolutely calm otherwise your cover will blow and you won’t see her in God knows how long”

Jungkook took a deep breath in hope to soothe his nerves. Instead he found the feeling in doctor Park’s assuring and warm smile.

“Will you be there?” he caught himself asking.

“Yes”

She smiled again and he returned it somehow.

The realization hit back at him when they arrived on the 10th floor. Jungkook was both excited and scared, not thinking for a second that his morning will turn out like this. Chaeyoung put her ID card to the reader, tapped the code and thus the doors to the schizophrenic departure were opened.

Jungkook did not know what to expect but for sure not this.

The massive corridor was clean and quiet, with some patients roaming around but looking pretty ordinary. His heart felt at ease.

Suddenly they were approached by the tall figure wearing a typical white apron. Jungkook got to know that was Choi Seunghyun, the handsome and intimidating head doctor of the 10th floor. After basic introductions, quick handshakes and brief information regarding the patient and her state they entered one of the rooms where Lisa was sitting on the bed, looking tediously into the wall and chair across from her.

“This is Lalisa Manoban. She’s currently on very small doses of stimulants so she’s absolutely conscious and aware of her surroundings…At least physically” doctor Choi said and then his eyebrow perked at the smaller male standing next to him “Are you ok Mr. Jeon?”

“S-Sure, sorry” Jungkook lied, trying his best to control his pounding heart and a sob ready to escape his lips.

Chaeyoung slightly panicked but fortunately doctor Choi seemed to be completely uninterested in the janitor’s state, clearing his throat to remind them why they gathered here in the first place.

Finally Jungkook swallowed and nodded at the doctors, slowly approaching Lisa and taking a seat in front of her.

Their eyes finally met and Jungkook felt his hands shaking. There she was – sitting in front of him, all and well, looking relatively healthy. But she looked dull, too.

Without wasting any more minute Jungkook switched to Thai.

“They can’t know we know each other so please honey, you must pretend that we not”

“Ok” she offered, drifting her eyes from him to the wall behind. Jungkook furrowed his eyebrows – something was not right.

“Um, so…” he collected himself, trying to recall what doctor Choi wanted to know “How are you feeling?”

“I’m feeling ok” she answered and Jungkook’s suspicion only grew.

“How are they treating you?”

“They’re treating me ok”

“How is your sleep?”

“My sleep is ok”

“How’s the food? Do you feel nauseous or something?”

“The food is ok, I feel ok”

Unknowingly Jungkook held on the sides of his chair, his knuckles turning white as he felt some kind of rage taking over him. Everything he was seeing did not look ok.

“Lisa please, look at me” he raised his voice a little, catching her attention back “Why do you speak only Thai? What happened?”

“Nothing happened” she practically sang “Everything is ok”

Jungkook started to breath frantically, gritting his teeth through the closed mouth.

“Is everything ok Mr. Jeon?” doctor Choi asked, absolutely oblivious to the word that suddenly triggered Jungkook to the fullest.

Before Jungkook could snap he heard Lisa speaking again.

“Excuse me mister, you said we know each other” her stare was back at the wall “How?”

He looked at her with widened eyes. No, it was not possible.

“Yes Lisa, we know each other, it’s me. Jungkook. Your boyfriend”

With that Lisa gazed at him with a stare full of puzzlement but then relaxed, eyes off him again.

“Ok”

Once Jungkook heard that he started to shake and stormed out of the room, leaving Lisa and two doctors behind without a second look.

He approached the main exit and then his body gave up, the tears falling down his cheeks mixing with silent sobs and trembling hands.

“Jungkook, hey! Wait!” Chaeyoung somehow caught up, closing the doors in one swift move and holding his arms, successfully stopping him “What happened there? What did she say?”

Jungkook could not offer a single word, his teary eyes still widened and in clear shock, filling Chaeyoung with nothing but guilt and remorse.

Without thinking much further she closed him in a hug, gently his back.

“Hey, it’s ok…Everything’s ok”

Jungkook bit his lip together with a loud sob he managed to swallow, burying his face in her red hair and trying to steady his breaths.

No, nothing was ok.

LATER

“As much as I can relate to your disapproval you have to admit it might work” Namjoon pointed softly with his chin at V, who was sitting calmly by the table and enjoying the dinner “Just look at him”

Jennie scoffed and rolled her eyes, moving in her chair again to be as away from the sociopath as possible. She still remembered the question V asked her two days ago and that just made her more uncomfortable in his recently inevitable company.

Currently she was sitting in the dining room together with Namjoon, Hoseok and therefor V, when the guard broke the news for them – another patient was planned to be admitted to the common area, namely Lalisa Manoban, who suffered from extreme schizophrenia.

Jennie, obviously, objected. Was not V enough?

“Have you ever met her?” Namjoon asked, looking at Hoseok.

“Few times maybe…Although one was particularly weird” he grimaced a little and then lowered his voice “She said something weird to Jisoo and addressed her by full name…There’s no way she could have known it”

Namjoon crossed his arms while Jennie’s eyebrow perked.

V suddenly stopped picking on his pickles but quickly came back to it, evidently feeling the stares practically eating him alive. No wonder thought – everyone already knew that he was supremely sensitive and attentive each time the word ‘Jisoo’ crossed someone’s mouth.

After few more moments that cleared the atmosphere it was Jennie’s turn to speak.

“What did she say?”

“That someone is coming for Jisoo” now Hoseok was almost whispering, trying his best to stay out from V’s range of hearing. Successively, it seemed.

Namjoon and Jennie exchanged a knowing stare and silently agreed to not ask any further, the feeling of apprehension suddenly surrounding the table again.

As in cue one of the nurses approached Jennie telling her that she had a visitor, so she left her companions and untouched dinner within seconds. However by the exit she passed by Kim Seokjin, who entered the canteen with a pretty blonde by his side.

Jennie felt a weird shiver going down her spine but she shook her head and followed the nurse to meet whoever was waiting for her.

“Hey guys” Seokjin greeted with a wide smile “This is Lalisa Manoban, she will be with us for a while”

Namjoon and Hoseok stood up and bowed, introducing themselves to the girl who looked at them a bit indifferently but returned the gesture nonetheless – minus the verbal part.

“She doesn’t speak Korean…Since few days” Seokjin answered their pending question and then looked at the last man sitting by the table “V, stand up and say hello to Lalisa please”

“We’ve met” V replied, not looking up from his fricassee before taking a solid bite. Both Namjoon and Hoseok furrowed their eyebrows in questionable manner but decided not to dwell on it.

Seokjin went to the kitchen to get Lisa a meal but not before making sure that leaving her with the rest was fine – apparently Hoseok did not mind, reminding everyone what his job was.

Namjoon was silently observing both V and Lisa, trying to get everything he could from their calm behaviors. Well, maybe there was nothing to be looking for – they were just two kind-of new patients, period.

Lisa was looking around from time to time, as if trying to understand the voices filling the hospital’s lunchroom.

Namjoon knew she was Thai but unfortunately, that was the language he never picked up. Raising his eyebrow and letting the curiosity take the best of him he offered a communication in other ways – namely English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Italian and Russian and even Icelandic.

He got no response but at least Lisa seemed to acknowledge that he was trying to talk to her.

Suddenly with a wide smile on her face she started to mumble and then hum some words in an odd manner, but only for him to hear.

No, Namjoon did not know Thai but he knew a warning when he heard one.

MEANTIME

Jennie froze to her spot once she spotted Mino in the waiting area. When he looked up to meet her stare he stood up, but there was absolutely no emotion gracing his handsome features.

She gulped but approached him, thinking of how she imagined their first meeting here to go differently.

“Hi” he started and sat back. Jennie took the opposite side of the small table, not fully processing his cold attitude. But she had her pride, after all.

“Took you a while”

“A week I believe” Mino stated and reached for his bag, putting some documents on the table “I don’t