You're Rangers Now!

In which Yeung Tang Mǐn cuts her hair and her ear and the Wei triplets try to help. 
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After the fourth time that hour Min tries tying back her hair, she decides the time has come for a hair cut. 
That evening, Min snags a paper bag from the cafeteria and locks her room. She brushes her hair to within an inch of its life, knots it in two, tight braids, picks 30 degrees from the floor as a perfectly good angle, and lops off the right one. Realizing that she really should have started on the left because the angle was much more awkward, Min juggles the scissors in her left hand, lets the other braid get the correct angle with her right hand, and snips it off.
"Son of a--!"
Apparently she snipped cartilage too. 
Min dumps the scissors in the sink and grabs a wad of toilet paper. Pressing it to her ear, she kicks the other braid out of the way, struggles into her flats, and, berating herself for locking the door, takes off running down the hall. 
Within 50 feet her spine wailed and her hip ached. 
"Nice haircut Tang Min!" called a cart driver. 
She turned with a smile and waved. 
"Evening, Tang Min!"
Why were all these people out so late???
She doesn't realize how far she'd listed to the right until suddenly there's a door and her face explodes and she's sailing backwards, landing hard on her elbows, tissues flying everywhere. 
And she's still a five-minute run from the Medical Wing. 
A triplet flutters, "Min! Are you okay?" 
"There are six of you," says Min. "And I think I broke my nose."
"I am so sorry, I didn't know--why were you so far to the right anyway?" Yea, Min had absolutely no idea who's talking. 
She croaks, "Running."
"Yes, we gathered that--"
"That is a /lot of blood." 
"I cut my hair and cut my ear."
Two of the six triplets help her stand; another pair mirrors them, and the final pair scoops up the tissues. They're still looking at her funny, though. 
"Could you guys go back to ... one person?" 
The six triplets blink--
There're three triplets! 
(Or at least there're four triplets. She can't see the third pair.)
At that point, the third pair started sucking on her ear. 
"The hell are you doing?!" 
"Ahh," Jin wipes his tongue off on a clean patch. "Trying to clean it. That's what we did before we were Rangers anyway."
Min ....
Hu and Cheung shrugs. 
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"Did someone lick your ear?" asks Doctor Tong. 
Jin raises his hand. 
"Good idea, but that really only works on yourself. Otherwise, the human mouth is absolutely disgusting. It won't need stitches but I /will be dumping antiseptic on it, and it will sting."
"Should my ear be burning?"
"Yep." Doctor Tong gestures at Min's face. "What exactly happened here?"
"Ran into a door," says Hu. 
"Pretty hard, too," adds Cheung.
"And she landed on her elbows," Jin finishes. 
"You know what, I'm going to give you an fMRI because with your luck, you'll have broken something," says Doctor 
"I think I broke my nose."
"I do too. This way."
Cheung helps Min to her feet and Hu-'n-Jin stand. 
Doctor Tong, however, has other ideas, and offers Min an arm. "You three, if you stay, keep to that bed and nowhere else."
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Twenty minutes later, Doctor Tong has Min's broken nose set and covers it with a Crimson Typhoon bandage. 
The triplets squee. 
"Time for a haircut, huh?" asks Nurse Xiá, helping Min onto a bed. "Can you still lift your arms?"
Min nods, and with great difficulty pushes them up from where they'd locked over her chest. Nurse Xiá tucks a couple ice packs against her sides and Min gratefully relaxes. 
"Doctor Tong's looking at the scan now; it'll probably be a few minutes." 
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Nurse Xiá skitters away from the bed and hovers off to the side. 
"So," says Doctor Tong, pulling up a chair. "Good news or bad?"
"Bad."
"Bone bruise on your left arm--I expect you landed on that side the hardest. The tissue's not happy either and it'll probably hurt for at least two weeks. Your right arm's got some deep-tissue bruising but will clear up sooner. Ice both sides, five off, five on for half an hour."
"Good?" 
"You only broke your nose and there's no permanent damage to your ear. You'll be fine in a month. Your hair, however ...."
Min sighs.
 
"If you can manage to sit up, I think Nurse Xiá is anxious to even you out."
"Yea, sure, go nuts." 
Doctor Tong grins and hurries from the warpath. 
Xia orders Jin to get a sheet, and wraps it around Min's shoulders. In a matter of moments Min's ragged hack job becomes a lovely bob. Xia then turns to the triplets, snatching a chin and turning his face this way and that. "You're looking a bit scruffy too." Xia proceeds to yank out eyebrow hairs.
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