NO STRING ATTACHED - JENLISA

Don't Make This a Thing

INT. COMMAND TENT – POST-DRILL

Lisa's debriefing is interrupted when Jennie walks in to hand over casualty data.

It's just the two of them now. Quiet.

JENNIE
Your new recruits are reckless. They nearly dropped a stretcher mid-lift.

LISA
They'll learn. Pain makes fast students.

Beat.

JENNIE
Are you always like this? Tough until everyone's gone?

Lisa doesn't look up.

LISA
You don't know me well enough to say that.

JENNIE
I don't want to.

A lie. A weak one.

LISA
Then why are you still standing here?

Jennie looks at her for a long second. Then:

JENNIE
Because I don't play games I can't win. But I'm still competitive.

A smile. Soft. Dangerous.

LISA
Careful. That sounds a lot like flirting.

JENNIE
It's not. I don't flirt with people I work with.

LISA
You make exceptions?

JENNIE
I make mistakes.

And with that—she's gone. Lisa watches the flap of the tent close behind her, jaw tight.

INT. OFFICERS' LOUNGE – NIGHT

Lisa, Seulgi, Jisoo, and Mingyu (tall, cocky, a friendly flirt) are gathered. Laughter, drinks, casual teasing.

MINGYU
Captain. Someone told me you got flustered this week. Almost human.

LISA
That someone needs to run drills for six hours tomorrow.

JISOO
Can we talk about how Jennie literally threw a clipboard across the room yesterday?

Everyone goes silent. Lisa tenses.

SEULGI
Touchy subject?

LISA
Not a subject at all.

MINGYU
Oh come on, it's obvious. It's like watching two cats circle the same patch of sun.

LISA
There is nothing going on.

SEULGI
Right. Just that weird "I want to kiss you or kill you" vibe.

Lisa gets up, grabbing her jacket.

LISA
I'm going to check the perimeter.

JISOO (to Seulgi)
She's totally screwed.

INT. MEDICAL TENT – LATER THAT NIGHT

Jennie is alone. Music low in her quarters. She stares at her open laptop, but her mind drifts.

She writes something in her journal:

"Rules are safe. People are messy.
Lisa is the most dangerous kind of messy."

She closes the journal. Sits in silence.
Then, she gets up and walks to the edge of camp.

EXT. PERIMETER FENCE – NIGHT

Lisa leans against a truck, lit cigarette in hand.
Jennie finds her.

LISA
Looking for trouble?