With Mina’s arm over Momo’s shoulders, they quickly entered their apartment as Sana cleared their khakis leather couch and gently settling Mina onto the couch. Only at a moment like this will the two finally being nice and gentle to each other. Momo cut off the shirt Mina was wearing from above her injured shoulder, revealing her bloodied shoulder. All this time, Mina has been trying hard to resist screaming at the intense pain she was experiencing. As she pants hard for air, droplets of sweat can be seen rolling down her face as she squeezed her eyes shut.

Sana finally returned after a painful minute or two with the basic medical tools and drugs they always keep safely in their dorm. She quickly opened a small bottle of alcohol and emptied it on Mina’s injured shoulder, earning a painful groan from the latter. With Momo at the side sanitising the tools, Sana took some cotton buds to absorb the blood off of Mina’s shoulder. Sana then proceeded to stitch up the wound, as Momo injects a dose of Anesthesia into Mina’s front side of her elbow, and then waiting patiently by Mina’s side, clenching onto Mina’s left hand. Her hands never felt so cold before.

When Sana finished stitching up Mina’s shoulder and patching it up, both Sana and Momo exhaled a sigh of relief before slumping with their backs against the couch where Mina was lying unconscious on. Suddenly, a thunderous knock can be heard from their apartment door. Momo quickly jerked up and went for the door, revealing an impatient Jihyo. Stomping into the apartment, she immediately found her precious Penguin lying there with a certain Shiba next to her dozing off. Turning towards the peach with a bruise on her left cheek, Jihyo gave her a light pat on her shoulder and said “HQ didn’t know about 36^th Street’s alliance with Exodus either, this time’s failure isn’t on you guys. Just wanted to make sure my kids aren’t dead yet.”

The next day, Mina was absent at the hospital either as Jihyo called in as her Unnie, telling them that Mina needs another day of medical leave as she has yet to recover.

Her condition must be serious… Tzuyu thought to herself as she stares blankly at the report in her hands when she heard the news. Guess I will be alone again then. Sighing, Tzuyu stood up from her seat and went for her rounds again.

“I heard that the 36^th Street gang was attacked.” Tzuyu heard a voice say from behind her. Shrugging away the uneasy feeling she has been feeling all day, she continued walking. Well, names of gangs and underground organisations in general hasn’t been foreign to her for her father has been warning her about them since young, and that she does realise that her father sometimes do business with them. Despite being aware of her father’s shady business, she chose to remain quiet and not to know about them in front of her dad.

Mina has been out cold all day until evening when Momo ordered some take out from that Jokbal restaurant that she has been talking about. Sana gently shook her up, afraid of hurting her shoulder. Mina slowly blinks away the tiredness as she sees a concerned Sana, telling her that she should at least eat something to regain energy. Slowly sitting up on the couch with Sana’s help, she hissed as she felt a sharp pain pierce through her left shoulder.

“Wakey wakey pengu, before I finish all the food.” Momo said while trying to stuff with more jokbal. Amused by the first few scenes unfolding before her eyes after waking up from her long slumber, Mina laughed a little.

Sana passed a cup of watermelon juice to Mina while looking at her with sympathy. Mina’s face is rather pale, and her lips are drained of blood. Mina tried to take the cup with her shaky hands but instead, Momo put a straw into the cup instead and said, “Injured pengu is weak; a straw will do the magic.” Despite the seemingly kind act, Mina squint her eyes at Momo, questioning the sincerity of Momo’s concern for her which sounded more like an insult to her. Sana chuckled a little while feeding the weak penguin her juice while Momo made a ridiculous face at them with the bruise still present on her face. Mina quickly took the chance and poked Momo’s injured cheek, earning a hiss and a killer’s glare from the peach.

“Okay okay, kids, eat up. Mina, you still have to report for work tomorrow, will you be fine?” Sana questioned, still holding onto the cup as Mina drinks from it. Looking up to the older girl, Mina gave her a nod and replied. “I need someone to drive me to work though.” And both Sana and Mina quickly looked towards the stuffed peach at the same time, as if on cue.

“Why me? Sana?” Momo squeaked.

“Can’t, need to gather my intel and write the report for our failed mission.” Sana replied, “Unless you would like to exchange with me?”

Shaking her head furiously, Momo agreed to accompany the penguin to work tomorrow.

Mina popped a painkiller before heading out for work the following day, with the reluctant peach. “The hospital has quite a few pretty girls, if that cheers you up.” Mina half whispered to Momo. And sure enough, Momo instantly lit up and pulled Mina to the car, which still smells a little like iron (blood).

“Hey Tzuyoda!” Dahyun called out to the green-haired girl with the nickname that she had come up with due to the uncanny resemblance. “Dr. Myoui will be back today, so smile a little more.” Finishing off with a cheerful grin to the taller girl, Dahyun skipped off to her station and began working. Giving the overly-enthusiastic nurse a small smile, Tzuyu proceeded back to her table to get some caffeine into her system.

I wonder if she’s feeling better. Tzuyu thought to herself and shortly after, a rather pale Penguin waddles into the office with her signature sergeant walk.

“Hey, doctor, you feeling better?” Tzuyu walk forward with concern written all over her face as she approaches her mentor. With a smile tugged at her face, Mina replied with a quick nod.

“I’ve missed your company.” Tzuyu muttered softly under her breath. Little did she know that Mina heard her voice, as clear as day.

“You said something?”

“No, nothing. Let’s go for our rounds. The kids missed you dearly.” Tzuyu quickly replied, trying hard to hide her flushed ears and neck by dragging the poor penguin out of the office when Mina barely finished putting her things down.

A/N: Sorry for the super late update, I almost thought I lost my thumbdrive with all the chapters for this story in it. Thank goodness I found it again... 

As usual, I hope you all enjoy the chapter. c: