Consciousness!!! 

Marian is absolutely ready to extubate her as soon as she's demonstrated being fully alert and GCS 15 and all that. However, she will first ask Hye-jin to blink and squeeze Marian's hand and wiggle her toes, to prove that, so it's going to be a thirty-second wait. 

plz free me from tube

He's not going to cry he's not going to cry he's not going to cry in public but he'll ask, in Japanese, "Do you remember me? Lee Tae-gun?"

Esper tech is really cool and Marian is jealous.

...She has no idea what Tae-gun just said and is going to ignore it. 

"I know! Working on it - let's get you sitting up a little more -" She'll get Tae-gun's help with that one more time, and then - suction catheter ready, Hye-jin has absolutely been through this before and does not need to be prompted to cough when Marian deflates the balloon holding the tube in place and slides it out. "There you go. Better?" There's an oxygen mask hooked up and on the wall hook behind the head of the bed, in case Hye-jin's O2 sat doesn't hold up, but Marian mostly doesn't expect any issue. Regen is bullshit. 

???? she is very confused by Tae-gun's sentence, but she will cooperate with getting the hated tube out first.

She - uh - oh this is in English, that's a fun and exciting adventure she's not used to having in her hospital experience - nods? Yes? Better? She thinks that was the question asked? She's nodding anyway, it's fine.

And then she can reply to Tae-gun.

"what kind of dumbass question is that," she rasps to her partner.

He doesn't start crying. He doesn't. He's resting his forehead on Hye-jin's shoulder from behind and hiding his face just in case. Even though he's not going to cry, there's no reason to take risks. 

(His breathing goes get somewhat laboured, though.)

Kim Hye-jin: Translation!
Kim Hye-jin: Because this is a terrible time to practice my English, actually

Marian is honestly relieved that they speak a language she doesn't and can have their conversation about Probably Secret Esper Shit be actually private without any awkward having to ask her to step out? 

...Tae-gun seems upset. She is going to continue pretending she didn't notice unless he, like, hopefully makes eye contact with her or otherwise indicates that he would like some form of support. 

Oooh translation! Marian is suitably impressed! 

"You're in the trauma ICU in Reno, Nevada," she said, speaking slowly and clearly because that probably helps with ease of translation as well as being ESL. "You were teleported here about," wow what time is it even, "about two and a half hours ago. You arrived with, er, gunshot wounds and severe backlash hypothermia. - careful, you're getting a blood transfusion from your partner right now for guiding purposes, and you're attached to kind of a lot of equipment." 

Pause. 

"...How are you feeling? I should check your temperature again, if that's all right with you." 

...can he just hug her. Can he just, just, can he just wrap the arm that isn't getting blood drawn from around her midsection and keep his face hidden in her skin and in her hair and not think about anything other than the way she's still herself, she's still so herself, she remembers him and she's being herself and her brain is fine she's fine she's right here she's fine nothing bad happened she's fine—

Awwwww they're having a moment. Marian can be quiet and wait. 

Kim Hye-jin: Lots of things hurt, which probably means I'm okay?
Kim Hye-jin: Yeah go ahead for checking my temperature, that's fine.
Kim Hye-jin: Nevada is - America? That makes sense, it's - confluence, yeah? America's been doing better than Europe
Kim Hye-jin: I think. What dumbass thing did I - no, you said I got shot.

Marian really appreciates Hye-jin's resourcefulness at communicating. She's typing some of the words, probably because her throat hurts after the intubation, and muttering others. 

"America, yeah, we put ourselves on the list to take emergencies from overseas." It has, honestly, been a really satisfying week at work. Marian has called in for overtime several days this week just because it's an extra interesting time to be on the unit. "I don't know the details of what happened. We were told to prep a room when you hadn't come out of the dungeon at the expected time, and - you came out covered in blood and immediately lost consciousness.

- it's not your fault, no one is saying it's your fault." Marian will not actually go as far as saying 'you did everything right' because she has no idea, and Hye-jin might be offended if actually she remembers not doing everything right in the dungeon fight, but she's thinking it and it shows in her voice. 

(He's not going to say it's Kang Jaeha's fault. But she might guess soon enough. And he doesn't want to think about it.)

(God he loves her so much.)

Kim Hye-jin: Oh I was expecting to get yelled at for being dumb about my backlash.
Kim Hye-jin: But on reflection no I think I was incredibly justified!

Kim Hye-jin: multiple gunshot wounds in a dungeon?
Kim Hye-jin: I remember waking up and realizing it was about to close
Kim Hye-jin: and then doing entirely justified dumb shit to make it out anyway.

Marian has so little context on the scary assassin situation! She...has put together some suspicions and concluded that dungeons themselves probably do not shoot people with bullets and something - else - was going on...? Oh also she should give the bullet to Tae-gun at some point, it's not like she has any purpose for it except as a keepsake to remember this shift and maybe he can use it to...investigate, or whatever? 

"- Yeah, that makes sense." She ducks her head. "Your partner - did inform me about the non-disclosed medical info." 

Kim Hye-jin: yeah
Kim Hye-jin: It was probably really obvious
Kim Hye-jin: thank you for your discretion, it's not you, it's the crazy person that tried to kill me

Kim Hye-jin: tl;dr is that I'm real mad
Kim Hye-jin: on account of the people that are going to die because of this stupid shit.

...he's not crying but he does let out a single sob. "Hye-jin-ah, can we please not talk about this here?" he says, also in Korean.

God, she's so tired about constantly putting off the giant screaming disaster that got her fucking shot, apparently!

Probably right now is not the time to have this talk, though.

"Fine," she sighs, exhausted and mulish.

Marian will give zero indication that she heard that one sob. She's focused on Hye-jin right now, anyway, not Tae-gun. 

"I'm...sorry...that seems really - unfair." This feels like a stupid thing to say but in fairness Marian has no idea what one is supposed to say to that. "...We have you on camera, by the way. Still just someone's phone, Tech Support hasn't come back with a solution yet, but it's streaming to your, um, server? Tae-gun was able to give directions to do that." 

"Oh, good," she says, out loud, in Japanese. "Thank you, carry on filming me, if I get murdered here I want everyone to know and for -" Bad Hye-jin, not talking about it here. "- responsible parties to suffer consequences."

"We'll talk about it," he says in a whisper so soft you'd need esper senses to catch it. "I promise. But I'm still fragile. I can't lose you. I promise, just, please..."

Wow she's pissed. Pretty understandable but, uh, Marian feels awkward and is not sure what to say??? 

...Temperature check, she got distracted and did not in fact do that yet. 

Oh, it's way up! Almost to the temperature she's supposed to be, even! 36. Partner blood transfusion: really effective, actually.

Hye-jin herself just sighs and leans on her partner and bites back the desire to scream at him that she's fucking tired of tapdancing around his feelings on this topic, she's been assaulted three times over this subject, she wants it gone.

Instead she'll just. Quietly begin crying, she supposes. Emotions cannot go to yell, so they shall instead go to cry.

Oh no!!!!!! 

...Marian does not know her well enough to offer her a hug and also there are. Cultural differences probably. She can offer Hye-jin a box of tissue and try to look sympathetic? 

This is embarrassing they're having emotions in public Lee Tae-gun literally shut the fuck up. 

"It's not tactically smart to discuss dealing with a guy in public even if he does deserve dealing with," he murmurs. "Just wait until we get home."