Karina woke up too early and a tad bit too enthusiastically. She treads the doctor’s spacious kitchen carefully and wary of not making any loud noise so early in the morning.

She inspects the cupboards and contemplates what to serve Winter for breakfast. She had seen the girl’s poor choices of morning food when she has to go to work before and from what the demon had observed yesterday. The doctor would just east a piece of bread in the morning and if she’s uninterrupted, she could get at least a mouthful of sandwich and salad during her lunch which often takes later than Karina’s liking. And a roll of oats, people call granola bar for dinner. The demon could only shake her head at that.

Karina knows Winter would always have some coffee in the morning, so she looks at the bag of coffee beans and coffee machine in front of her. She deliberates with herself for a moment before summoning her side kick, she remembers she doesn’t know how to use these machines, aside from her collection of playstations and smartphones, she knows nothing about human technology.

It took her a while to get a hang of it but she made a decent pot of coffee, Ningning said to start with a simple breakfast, She could work on making a much grandeur meals next time, so she helps Ningning make a french toast.

“Oh that smells so good” a voice interrupts the busy mythical creatures.

Both of the gremlin and demon’s attention turn towards the kitchen archway where Winter appears, all ready and dressed up for work.

“Good Morning Winter” Karina greets, “We made you breakfast” she says proudly.

Having a few minutes to spare, Winter sits by the breakfast nook and observes as Karina serves her her breakfast, “Thanks you guys, You really don’t have to do this, I might get used to it” the human says as she takes a big bite from the french toast, “ohh, it’s so good”

Karina fondly smiles at her human, “You should get used to it, I will happily serve you for all of eternity”

The doctor only chuckles at that, as she continues to devour her breakfast. “You guys don’t have to make breakfast tomorrow, It’s my day off again, finally. I should make some for you guys since you’re still technically my guests”

Karina perks up an ear at that, “That means you won’t leave tomorrow?” She asks excitedly.

Winter nods, “just for two days, I get to have my rest days”

The demon just smiles widely, she needs to plan an appropriate resting experience for Winter. She had put her through a lot these past few days and her girl needs some pampering.

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Winter had just gotten out from her mentor —Dr. Son’s office. She presses the elevator button to the floor where the ER is, she’s gonna ask if there’s any patient they need assistance with, and if there’s not she figures she could finally take her lunch, it’s almost 2pm after all.

As soon as the elevator door opens up, she immediately makes her way towards the nurse’s station.

“Hey there Dr. Kim” the head nurse, Yeri greets her with a rather cheeky smile.

“What’s up, got anything for me?” She asks.

“If you meant a patient, then no” Yeri coyly says and she shimmies her shoulders for a bit, “But you do have something here”

The doctor could only furrow her eyebrows at the nurse’s odd behavior, “What do you mean?”

Instead of a verbal response, Yeri’s smile just got wider as she bends over the desk. She presents her with a bouquet arrangement of white tulips and pink carnations, along with a rather hefty paper bag. “This came in for you a few minutes ago” the nurse also pushes a closed envelope in the counter for Winter to take.

Winter is quite astonished with the display in front of her, it’s a really beautiful arrangement. And a grand one at that, as a doctor she often receive flowers as a thank you from grateful patients, however this is the biggest one she got.

She takes the sealed envelope in front of her and reads the card in it. The message says:

“The white tulips are for the immense apology i still owe you and the pink carnations are for the undeniable affection I have for you.

I know this is not enough to make up for the things I did, but I hope this brings out that beautiful smile in your lovely face.

I hope you are having a great day. And I also sent you a packed lunch, I know you haven’t eaten anything yet. I hope you’ll like it.

Sincerely, Karina”, With a noticeable red kiss mark on the paper.

Winter can’t help but smile at the sweet gesture, Karina has really been stepping up her game. However it is from the demon so Winter immediately gets a pen from her pocket and poked the flowers in front of her, she just have to make sure that these don’t have fangs in them, again.

The head nurse just blinks in confusion as she watches how Winter pokes every individual flower. Weird, but she lets it go. Being the resident nosey gossip monger in the workplace, Yeri pries. “Is it from Minju?”

Once the doctor deems the flowers to be safe, she pockets both her pen and the letter before turning to Yeri, “No, it’s from a patient” she lies, she knows the older one’s cheeky reputation and Yeri is one of the few people in the hospital who knows she’s Giselle’s half sister, so in extension they also know how single she is and her not so fortunate romantic endeavors.

Yeri just sassily puts a hand on her hips and her head, “Girl— i know what those flowers meant, someone is asking for your forgiveness and that’s definitely not a patient. And lastly, Minju should really be sorry for ghosting your ”

Winter just chortles on Yeri’s half-correct deduction, “Whatever Yeri, I’m taking my lunch break now” she grabs on to the bouquet in one hand and the paper bag on the other. She scurries her way before Yeri could even pry any further.

She goes to the break room first and stashes her bouquet safely at the cabinet on top of her locker, it bar