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DONGHAE: *tweets*
DONGHAE: *later, tweets again in response to someone else*
SHEENA: (in summary) DONGHAE TWEETED ABOUT KIBUM! AW KIHAE IRL, HOW CUTE! MEI YOU SHOULD WRITE FIC!
MEI: What?
SHEENA: that hospital board calls for a doctor/patient!AU... *shibrows*
MEI: ........

And so I made up crap because I no longer write for kpop. It's sad but true. This sucks, sorry it is not porn. In my head, there is KiHae porn. It's hot. This is not. I actually have no idea what it's supposed to be. Uh, also, you actually have to click the first link in order to understand this at all.



Donghae has been practicing medicine for a long time. He feels the age in his bones when gets up in the morning but it fades as he stretches and starts his day, ebbing with the spill of sunlight across the world. He wouldn't be doing this if he weren't an optimist: it's hard to be a doctor, even when his work focuses on common nose and throat problems and usually nothing life-threatening. It's hard but it's worth it, which is why Donghae can face each day with a smile.

It's easier too now that he's director. He's earned some rest. He can take a leisurely stroll around the courtyard in the center of the hospital, an oasis of greenery amidst the glass and steel, before stepping back into building. He crosses the waiting room as he heads for the stairs - he may be getting older, but he still opts for the stairs over the elevators when he can - leading to his office on the fifth floor. The attendant behind the counter looks up and calls out, "Lee Donghae!"

He startles and stops, disoriented at first at how plainly he's being addressed. It takes several seconds for him to realize that she's not talking to him but rather calling out one of the patients off her list. Curious at who might be sharing his name, Donghae lingers by the bottom of the stairs.

The boy who stands up is fresh-faced and young. Donghae pins him as a university student, a baseball cap tugged over his eyes and printed t-shirt with some English phrase. The fashion these days... Donghae will never understand it. But there is something about this boy and the way he smiles at the nurse behind the counter, sweet even when he looks tired and clearly feels ill, makes Donghae act impulsively.

It's a routine appointment with a patient worried about their symptoms. It shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes, realistically speaking, so Donghae nods at Dr. Kim and says he'll take this one. Kim Woojin is surprised but he acquiesces to the director, bowing out and murmuring that he'll check on another patient. He disappears down the hall as a nurse hands him a clipboard.

Donghae looks through the file, notes the complaints of sore throat and fatigue. He has a good idea what the problem is already. Honestly, children. So careless. When he meets his namesake's eyes head-on, he finds himself smiling despite himself at the earnest puppy-dog look.

"Well, Lee Donghae, nice to meet you. I'm Director Lee Donghae."

The eyes widen. "Really? Wow, no way--"

Doonghae chuckles. "A strange coincidence, I admit. I promise I'll take good care of you." He sets the clipboard down and reaches for a tongue depresser. "Now let's see what's got you feeling so miserable." He does a quick inspection of Donghae's lymph nodes and throat and asks how he's feeling, then nods. It hasn't even been ten minutes but he's confirmed his suspicions.

"Lee Donghae," he says, and it's funny, like he's talking to himself, but it's far from the strangest thing he's encountered. "I'm very sorry, but you have infectious mononucleosis."

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Three hours later, Donghae is quarantined in his dorm room and Shindong has been moved to crash with Heechul.

@donghae861015 I hate this, Heechul tweets at him angrily.

@Heedictator blame Kibummie, Donghae replies miserably. The only bright side is this way he doesn't have to talk, because his throat feels wretched.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GAVE DONGHAE MONO, YOU SLUT, Heechul texts at Kibum. Donghae, later, when he has the presence of mind to think about anything other than how crappy he feels, is grateful that Kibum doesn't have a Twitter where Heechul might accidentally expose everything by yelling at him. Small favors, he thinks as he dozes.

Kibum, backstage during rehearsal, cringes.

On the one hand, he does feel guilty as hell. On the other hand...this means he's probably not going to get to make out with Donghae for at least a month. He feels like this is punishment enough.

Life's tough and then your boyfriend gets kissing disease.



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Also, this is only vaguely amusing if you know what mono is and how it is transmitted. I don't know why you wouldn't but...you might not? So now you do!