Four: Home and Away. Part Two.

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Chimney came out of the hospital, pushing Jee to find the doctor...

"Uh, Dr. Green, excuse me? Um, the front desk told me who you were. I apologise. I'm Howard Han, and this is Jee-Yun, who I think you know already. Uh, I'm her father." He says.

"What can I do for you, Mr. Han?"

"I received this form in the mail from my health insurance, and I was just hoping that you could explain it to me." He said.

"All right, if you have any billing questions, you..."

"No, no, it's... it's not a billing question. Uh, it says right here that my daughter was brought in for an ER visit and... and that you treated her." He tells her.

"Yes. How is she?"

"Uh, the baby is fine, but her mother is not. Uh, I'm kind of losing it here. I... I... I... I just need to know what happened to her." He says.

"I think maybe you should speak to Jee-Yun's mother about this."

"No, no, no, I... I can't speak to Maddie about this because the day after she brought Jee-Yun in to see you, she left, and I... I don't know where she is. Please. Um... you see, she... she... she has postpartum, and it's been really tough on her. And I know that she's tired. I mean, we both are, but, uh, she had to do most of it alone. Uh, the day that she brought Jee-Yun to see you... that's the week that the world went crazy, more than usual. Uh, see, I'm a firefighter, and I was on call the whole time, so, uh, I didn't really check on her a lot, but I tried. I tried a lot, but the power was out and the phones were down half the time." He murmured, crying softly. "I'm... I'm so sorry. I'm... I'm not crazy. I'm... I'm just completely in the dark here, and I just need to know what's going on with her. With the both of them. That all."

Dr. Green looked around, unsure.

"Please?" He asked.

"Evidently, Ms. Buckley was bathing your daughter, and Jee-Yum slipped under the water."

"Well, f

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"Well, f... for how long?" He asked.

"Probably a few seconds. But Ms. Buckley couldn't be sure, which is why she brought Jee-Yun in to be examined."

"Just to be safe." He mumbled.

"Yeah, that's right."

"I... I'm so sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much." He tells her.

"Best of luck to you."

"Thank you." He said, signing loudly.

May walked into the breakroom, finding Josh there...

"Can I talk to you for a second?" She asked.

"Of course. What's up?"

"So... Claudette." She mumbled, sitting in the chair in front of him.

"Claudette..."

"You've known her for a while, right?" She asked.

"Yeah, we came up together."

"Has she said anything to you?" She asked.

"About what?"

"About me." She says.

"No. Why?"

"It seems like maybe I've done something to rub her the wrong way?" She asked, frowning softly.

"What do you mean?"

"It just feels like ever since she's got here, she's had it in for me." She tells him.

"Ever since she got here?"

"Yeah." She said.

"You mean since... this morning?"

"Has it really only been a day?" She asked, staring at him.

"Not even a full day. May, what's going on?"

 May, what's going on?"

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