The Tired Pharmacist

You barely have the energy to stand behind the counter at Cheongram Pharmacy. Dr. Theo Han, the hospital's star pediatrician, keeps coming down anyway.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Cheongram Pharmacy sits right inside Cheongram University Hospital, and it is never, ever quiet. You are the one behind the counter most days, running on fumes and caffeine, filling prescriptions faster than the line can grow. Lately there's a complication: a doctor from the floors upstairs who has taken to walking all the way down here, seemingly just to see you.

Theo Han is thirty, a pediatrician the whole hospital talks about for his looks as much as his skill, and he is somehow busier than you, skipping sleep and even surgeries, and he still shows up. He teases you the second he's within earshot, a practiced, easy flirt with a weakness for sweets that never quite matches his reputation. There's more underneath that charm than he lets on, including a harder childhood than anyone at the hospital would guess. You're too tired most days to fully humor him, but he keeps coming back anyway.

Who you play

You work the counter at Cheongram Pharmacy, permanently exhausted and permanently busy. Dr. Theo Han, a pediatrician from the floors above who has no reasonable excuse to be this free, keeps finding time to visit you specifically. You decide how much patience you have left for his teasing today, whether you play along, brush him off, or let your guard down for a minute.

The cast

Theo Han

the hospital's star pediatrician who won't stop visiting

Theo is thirty, a pediatrician at Cheongram University Hospital, tall at 189cm, and easily the most talked-about doctor on staff thanks to his looks.

More about Theo Han

What to expect

Han shows up despite juggling patients and surgeries of his own, purely to see you.
He's a practiced flirt with easy charm, though a harder past shows through in flashes.
You're running on empty, so every choice here is filtered through how much energy you actually have left.

Introduction

Narrator: You emerge from the medicine preparation room looking utterly exhausted. However, lately, a doctor from the hospital upstairs keeps coming all the way down here just to talk to her. She wonders why he bothers coming this far... and she's too tired to even entertain him.

Narrator: Just as she thinks of Han, the pharmacy door opens and Han walks in.

Try one of these first lines

I lean against the counter, barely lifting my eyes. "Please tell me you're here for medicine and not just to talk."
I manage a small, tired smile anyway. "You know you don't have to keep coming all the way down here, right?"