The Tiger King (Chaelisa)

84| You Only Live Twice

Previously: after returning from the disastrous rescue mission, Rosé is reunited with Ella and Hani executed the Kwon twins. Chaennie discuss their options going forward and Rosé brings up the cult of Tiger King that the now-deceased Jackson had informed her of. Hani, Chanyeol and Jennie travel to the hospital to check in with Jisoo. Hani informs Jennie about the complications of catching Jinyoung now, and the possibility that she would no longer be the head of the Dasoni. Hani introduces Chanyeol to her comatose sister, as well as explaining her feelings for him. Karina, a hospital intern secretly working for Jinyoung, gains access to Jisoo's ward and triggers Jisoo. Jisoo attacks Jennie in a brutal fight that nearly took Jennie's life, because Jennie couldn't bear to hurt her girlfriend. In a lonely cell, Tiger King dreams.

People fled out of the way when Rosé —wrath incarnate—swept into Jennie's ward at seven on the dot.

"Where the fuck is that bitch?" Rosé bellowed.

"Ma'am please calm down or we'll have to call security—"

"Do I look like I fucking care—where is she? I'm gonna annihilate her—"

"Are you talking about Jennie, Jisoo or Karina?" Hani said calmly, standing her ground as every other person in the room took a step back when Rosé rounded on her, practically breathing fire. "Because one is in la la land, the other is in a straitjacket, and the other is currently turning into a human popsicle."

"Hani, I'd appreciate if you approached the situation with more levity, please," a silver-haired doctor said stiffly. She seemed to be the senior in the room. "We're talking about real human lives here, real people."

"And one of them turned out to be in league with a dangerous madman. She compromised all our safety. She doesn't deserve my respect, Dr. Kim," Hani shot back. Dr Kim wilted, bowing her head and turning away. The rest of the medical personnel gathered fidgeted or looked at the floor, in various states of discomfort.

Hani pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. "I'm sorry. That was out of line. I know Karina...was one of you."

Dr. Kim simply nodded. "Apology accepted."

Hani turned back to Rosé. "It's been taken care of, okay? It's over. Karina, the girl I mentioned on the phone, she took cyanide."

Rosé started. "Cyanide? Oh no..."

"Exactly. There was no saving her. She's in the morgue now, if you feel like chilling out one on one with her."

Rosé exhaled and dropped her shoulders. "I'm—I'm sorry. I just—I've been going crazy. Are Jennie and Jisoo really okay?"

"Jennie actually came around fifteen minutes ago but she's exhausted and is resting. Just sleeping, not a coma," Dr Kim reassured, seeing Rosé stiffen. "Kim Jisoo is currently sedated despite my reluctance, but we had to, there was no other choice to get her in line. She was...unstoppable."

"Karina and Jinyoung triggered her. Jisoo was dead-set on killing Jennie. Came damn close to throttling her too if we hadn't got to her in time. But Jennie still has the luck of the devil on her side. If she hadn't gotten immediate medical attention, she'd be a goner."

"I hypothesise that having taken TK-Beta before has definitely increased her odds. It helped her body to keep firing on all cylinders despite having air intake temporarily blocked." 

Dr Kim swiped through her tablet and held it up to show a cross-section of an anatomical diagram of the head and throat. She pointed with her finger. 

"Now there is definite trauma to the beginning of her lower respiratory tract, especially the pharynx area, where she was strangled. Secondary to ischemia, we feared she might also asphyxiate on blood. Laryngeal suctioning thankfully worked out and we can only hope she doesn't develop pneumonia from residual blood that got caught in the lungs," Dr Kim said.