"Same principle as the direct blood transfusion or, um. The - standard guiding strategy." Marian is saying this with a completely straight face even though DYIIIING. "I think kissing, um, with tongue," could she possibly have thought of a more awkward way to say that, is she literally a middle schooler, "also works, but she's intubated. We're warming her that way anyway. I think after that you should get into the bed under her for more skin contact, while we're waiting to be able to do the blood transfusion, but I want to see if this helps, fluid exchange is supposed to be more effective." 

They want to put his pee?? In her????????

Okay, no, you know what, they're professionals, they know what they're doing, he doesn't, he's going to trust them. He nods and stands up. "Are there any special instructions or do I just need to urinate in this?"

Aaaaaaaaaaah????

"Don't, like, touch the inside of the hat with your hands?" She just took it out of its packaging, it's not guaranteed-sterile to the degree that you'd want for IV supplies but it's clean. "- You don't have any UTI symptoms, right?" Normal urine isn't actually sterile, that's a weird urban myth, but it's fairly clean and honestly even if he did have a UTI it's unlikely he would give it to her when they're rinsing her bladder out so thoroughly anyway. "No special instructions otherwise." 

(She's now realizing that she could also ask him to...spit in Hye-jin's mouth? Except that Marian is squeamish about one (1) thing and yechhhhhhhh. Also mouths are objectively much more disgusting than bladders, actually, and she really doesn't want to give her patient a ventilator-associated pneumonia with someone else's mouth bacteria, ughhhhh.) 

"No UTI symptoms," he confirms, and... goes to do as instructed, he supposes.

At least he gets to hide in the bathroom to do it. This is mortifying and weird and it might be medically necessary and if he'll literally jump into lava for Kim Hye-jin he will very well pee in a damn cup for her. While not thinking about it at all or, or about literally anything, actually, he has no idea what the thoughts he's not having are because he's not having them.

Marian, feeling rather pleased with her clever solution, will take the hat from him and thank him - she appreciates him being so helpful! and calm about everything! visitors who freak out about ICU things are way more stressful for her to be around - and then carefully pour his pee into the irrigation bag. (She makes a mental note to change the whole bag and tubing later if it turns out they need to keep this up for her whole shift, but it's fine for an hour or two.) 

"Right. I do think it could help to have more skin contact. If you're comfortable, er, undressing and using your ice stretcher trick to sort of slide under her, I - can turn my back," she'll still HEAR the monitor alarm if anything happens, "and I'm going to put a warming blanket over her, so you'll both be covered. Is that okay with you?" 

(Marian seems to feel that naked cuddles in an ICU patient's bed is a much bigger and weirder ask than peeing in a cup.) 

Tae-gun on the other hand finds that one a lot less uncomfortable. One, she's a medical professional, and two, the literal whole world has already seen him naked, he's literally been on the actual covers of actual magazines, at this point he's just kind of inured to it. 

"I can do that. Do you need to prepare her in any way or should I do it now?"

(Marian hasn't seen him naked! ...Or if she has it was in passing and she completely failed to make the connection that he's the same person. She doesn't own a TV or read magazines.) 

"Give me a second to get the blanket set up and check that all her lines are secured."

And that her vital signs are hanging in there. How are her blood pressure and heart rate looking now? She's only had the two units of blood, but they're running plasma in the rapid infuser now and she's had four liters of saline, though only a fraction of that will stay in her bloodstream rather than wandering off to make her extremities puffy. 

Hye-Jin’s vital signs: still hanging in there! It really does look to just be the hypothermia backlash that is the dangerous part now, her blood pressure and heart rate are slowly returning to more reasonable numbers.

Then Marian will get everything ready and tell Tae-gun when she's ready for him to undress and ice-stretcher his way under Hye-Jin in the bed. 

He strips quickly and efficiently—shoes socks he'd already taken his jacket off earlier T-shirt slacks underwear—and lifts her up into the air at the same time as he uses some more ice to lift himself into the bed under her before unconjuring the ice again. The entire process takes less than twenty seconds.

(Tae-gun's backlashing, too, but he's keeping a very tight lid on it. He took backlash meds earlier and those are helping some but he'll probably get some more obvious symptoms in a second. He's trying not to think about them, and the nurse will cover him and Hye-jin with a blanket which will make it easier, but they'll still be there.)

(Marian, if she were aware of this, would be very upset with herself for assuming he was fine to use his power - though she might have asked him to anyway, there isn't a great alternative for safely getting him in close contact with a critically hypothermic patient attached to tons of lines and tubes - and also would really, really wish he had felt comfortable communicating with her about his limits. However, Marian has no way of knowing right now and so will continue to operate in blissful ignorance.) 

Temperature check? Are any of her attempts to intervene directly on the backlash starting to have effects? 

Yep! 32 degrees Celsius! She might soon graduate to the normal thermometer, if for some reason Marian were going to swap.

...You know what, yes, actually, Marian will totally switch to the normal thermometer as soon as she can! It takes ten seconds to bring up a reading instead of thirty seconds and when it comes to knowing her patients' vital signs Marian is not a patient person. 

X-ray tech is here! 

....Wow, um. Marian. Did not think this through. The part where there's a naked man lying under her patient in the bed and they now need to wedge an X-ray board under her. (Marian decided to be slightly proactive and program an abdominal X-ray too juuuust in case the patient has internal injuries that she couldn't report because she passed out approximately the second she made it out of the dungeon.) Sure, her patient is an esper and this is not even notably weird for the week they're having but!!! still!!!

(Marian has not been working here long enough to get entirely desensitized to the fact that things like this come up.) 

Espers, man. 

...She will explain to Tae-gun through the blanket that they need to put a board under Hye-jin's body to take an X-ray. How does he think it most makes sense to do that. 

"I lift her up with ice, you place the plate wherever it makes sense to do so, perhaps supported by more ice, then I lower her back down. Would that work?"

“Works for me! If you’re doing all right on backlash yourself.”

She is not going to ask what his backlash is. Espers care a lot about medical privacy for that, understandably! And not everyone even gets medical-emergency-grade backlash. So it's not like she needs to know for professional reasons. 

They shouldn't have the warming blanket on her for this, it's got radioopaque materials in it, but she can swap it out for a sheet and then guide Tae-gun through where the board needs to go. She asks the X-ray tech to wait outside, because sure, he's seen weirder, but - being in the ICU for backlash treatment is a lot and Tae-gun is taking on a lot right now and she doesn't want to additionally make him deal with an X-ray tech staring at him because apPARENTLY he's a celebrity or something. 

Well, his acute backlash doesn't get medically dangerous until it's very very severe and his chronic backlash isn't at passively dangerous levels* so he's fine, really!

He does look confused when she sends the X-ray tech away, though. "Do they not need to help set up the X-ray?" he wonders.

* Anymore.

“Not with you here!” Maybe he’s not that bothered but Marian is.

???

"So should I... leave?"

He shakes his head. "Never mind, sorry, I shouldn't be wasting your time."