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Late Night Rounds: Between Margins and Misreading by merrymashu
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
15 Feb 2026
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Summary
Some nights are long. Some nights leave you breathless. And some nights… teach you truths you can’t unfeel.
Taerae and Matthew are learning, the hard way, that exhaustion isn’t the only thing making them weak in the knees. There are glances that linger, touches that tease, and a slow-burn tension that refuses to loosen its grip. Behind it all sits a tangle of complicated hearts — ones that keep choosing the wrong time, the wrong person, or the most emotionally disastrous option possible.
Between sleepless study sessions, hospital corridors, late-night rounds, and the kind of exhaustion that strips people down to their truest selves, they’re forced to confront something even messier than medicine: their feelings.
In a field meant for saving lives — when hearts are running on caffeine, adrenaline, and denial — what happens when those feelings finally spill over?