Field Doctor

Shatter Reality

Reese P.O.V.

I pulled my jacket tighter around my body as I stepped away from the hospitals doors and stepped into the crisp cold air. The night had been long and hectic. The ER didn't rest a wink. We had patients come in at such an alarming rate, that many of the other nurses and doctors had checked to see if there was another villain attack. There hadn't been any surprisingly, and none of our patients had reported anything of the sort to us. Just an unlucky night for a lot of people, I guess. I shook my head and continued down the walkway toward the train. I hoped I would be able to get home some what quickly, eat, and then pass out after a long hot shower. It was finally my weekend and I had four days off, before going back to the hell I knew as work for another three.

Recently, villain attacks had become much more common. Many people had been talking about the rise of the new League of Villains being the main reason for much of the disturbance. I didn't really care what was causing it, all I needed was for the heroes to stop it. The ER had been so busy every night, and there had been to many times in the past few weeks where we couldn't keep up with the overflow of patients. We had been on divert, sending the ambulances to different hospitals, due to ours being overflowing. Don't get me wrong, we were the best hospital in central Japan, but I couldn't help but wish for at least one steady night. I laughed to myself at that thought. I worked in the ER as a doctor. There was no such thing as a steady night. Well, a girl can dream right?

I reached the train and waited silently on the platform. I had talked to many patients, nurses, techs, and fellow doctors last night. My social battery had been completely drained and right now all I wanted to do was sit in front of a tv and let my brain become numb to everything around me. Just for a little while. That would be nice.

"Doctor Keiko," a voice erupted from behind me. I sighed knowing my wishes had just been shattered completely and turned around. One of the ER nurses had been rushing behind me and within a few seconds was standing right in front of me.

"Ah, Nurse Jackson, how may I help you?" I asked letting a soft smile wash over my face. The male in front of me had worked in the ER with me for about six months and had always been on of my favorites to work with. He had always asked questions and been more interested in the inner working of the human body and psyche.

"I just wanted to see if you were busy after shift, and don't call me Nurse Jackson when we are off shift it sounds wayyy to professional!" the male exclaimed. This wasn't an unusual occurrence. Emiko Jackson would occasionally find me after work and ask to go over certain cases we had that night, or previous nights. Even more reason I had come to truly admire the new nurse. He worked hard and was very diligent to finding ways he could better help and understand the patients that were brought into the ER. He himself wanted to become a doctor, and every bit of me knew that he had the dedication and skill to become one.

"I guess we could do that as long as it's somewhere that serves coffee. Preferably out of here too. I have had enough of this part of town for the day," I stated.

"Yes of course!" The nurse exclaimed. Thankfully it was just a little past seven thirty in the morning, so most places had coffee services available. One of the upsides of working the night shift I suppose. We both decided to board the train and take down to the station I was planning on exiting on anyway. There was a smaller café near my apartment building that we would go to.

"How come you live in an apartment building instead of a house like most of the other doctors?" Jackson asked as we stepped off the train onto our destination platform.

"Medical school is very expensive," I quipped playfully, knowing the statement was very true. Especially being newly out of medical school and beginning my work as a doctor. I wasn't struggling at all, but wasn't in a place to be buying a house or anything. He let out a laugh well nodding. "So, what cases did you have questions about this time?"

"Oh, well I actually wanted to ask you more about your quirk and how you used it in your cases," he replied, "I wanted to get an idea of how I could maybe use mine to help others in the medical field." You see just like heroes, medical staff had to get licenses to use their quirks in the medical field. You had to go through a separate school to acquire it. It was very different from somewhere like UA seeing as the people who attended weren't planning on using their quirks to rescue, fight, or protect. Instead, they were used to help heal or foresee patient's medical problems. Not every person that applied was accepted to use their quirk. For example, if you had fire quirk you wouldn't be excepted necessarily unless it was proved to be capable of helping the well being of others from a medical viewpoint.

"Well, that's a wonderful discussion!" I spoke excitedly, "as you've seen my quirk can calm people. By placing my hands on them I can calm their minds and put them in more of relaxed state. When patients are brought in a lot of the times, they, or someone with them are in a very panicked state. By using my quirk to calm them we can obtain their medical history and find out the source of injury faster. It also helps the medical team working on them to be faster and provide better care for the patient. The patient is always our main priority, and most of the time if they are in a more relaxed state, we can treat them faster."

"Did you ever think about becoming a hero with your quirk?" he asked, his question had honestly caught me off guard. I had thought about it constantly when I was younger, but by the time it came to choosing which path I wanted to take for the future I had taken the medical route and hadn't really looked back since.

"When I was a kid sure," I answered him as I pushed open the door to the café.

"Why didn't you?" he questioned.

"I honestly didn't think I would be any good in the hero world. I figured I would be much better in this line of work. I could help more people here. I don't think my quirk would be very helpful in a fighting situation. What would I do? Calm the villain down? Then what? Kick him?" I laughed at myself gently. Jackson looked at me with a serious look.

"I think that would be a great quirk for a hero to have," he replied with a huff. I shook my head at him and smiled.

"That's very sweet, but I've made my decision. If this is an attempt to convince me to become a hero just remember it's a little late now." I told him before stepping toward the counter to place my order. I was in my twenties, to old to go train with a bunch of teenagers to become a hero. I had made my choice. Plus, I was a hero. Just a different type.

I stepped away from the counter to let Jackson order as I finished and paid. My eyes began to stare outside the windows of the shop, watching as the world passed by. A comfortable and warm feeling settled in me as snow began to fall from the cloud sky. Soon the streets would be covered in a beautiful white coat of cold snowfall. Perfect, at least for a little while. I knew the ambiance of the shop and the cozy feeling of being inside and warm would end eventually. I knew momentarily I would have to check back into reality, but for a moment longer I could stay right were I was and pretend everything was perfect, like there weren't overflowing hospitals, and patients constantly needing immediate medical attention. Nothing bad could ever happen to anyone, and like there weren't bad people in the world. That was a nice fantasy world, wasn't it?

I knew the world would shatter when Jackson came over to me after finishing his order, I knew that. I didn't expect to be ripped from my fantasy world by the glass of the building shattering around me though. Screams rang through the coffee shop, and I fell to the floor placing my arms quickly over my head to prevent glass shards from piercing my face. I knew my fantasy world would be shattered. I didn't think the actual world would shatter as well.