divulgence // luke hemmings au

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"Where are you going?" Sabrina was sitting on the living room sofa typing a way on her laptop as Luke came rushing down the stairs. "I'm heading to the hospital so I can turn in my badge and get my last pay check".

"Oh. Are you coming back afterwards?"

"Yes! I shouldn't be long". Luke grabbed his keys off the coffee table and headed out as Sabrina went back to typing on her laptop while sipping hot tea.

Sabrina was deep into work after Luke left, several minutes of quietness went by until the house phone started ringing very loudly. Sabrina had no time to read the caller ID, instead she just answered the phone. "Hello?" Sabrina spoke softly into the phone first.

"Hi, this is Saint Peter's Health calling for a Mr Luke Hemmings."

"He's not here at the moment. This is his wife, Sabrina, is this call an urgent matter?"

"In a way yes, Mrs Hemmings." The receptionist responded an antsy tone in her voice.

"I just pulled up your husbands medical records and I do see you as a person with permission to speak on his behalf. Do you mind noting this information for your husband so he can give us a call he has further questions?"

"Yes. What exactly is this pertaining to ma'am?"

"This is McKayla calling from Doctor Ellis's office, we were imputing scans and test results into the new online patient portal and there seemed to be a problem with some of your husbands records."

Now Sabrina's heart was beginning to beat out of her chest. "What does that mean McKayla?"

"It means that results and scans that we previously thought were your husbands actually weren't his at all."

"How could that be?"

"It looks like your husbands name is similar to another patient of ours and a lot of stuff got mixed up. I apologize for that, Mrs Hemmings."

There was a bit of a silence from Sabrina's end of the phone.

"But what does this mean? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

"MAAM this actually good thing. This morning Doctor Ellis reviewed your husbands actual scans from the last few appointments and it appears that he's been cancer free for a long time now."

A wave of shock shot through Sabrina's body, her ears couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Wait can you repeat that please?"

"Yes, Mrs Hemmings, your husband is cancer free and is in remission. Please pass on the great news to him."

"So he's not terminal? He's not going to die on me?"

"As of right now, Mrs Hemmings, no. Please tell him to schedule a routine follow up in a few months we want to re check to make sure there's no new tumor growths."

"That's fine! Thank you for calling, I'll be sure to tell him."

As Sabrina was hanging up the phone, Luke was walking into Saint Peters Hospital, dressed in a white t shirt and gray sweatpants. He saw his supervisor at the front desk and he asked her where Helen was so he can turn in his badge, Charlotte pointed to the break room — that's where he went.

Luke stopped in front of the gray door and used the back of his hand to knock on the door. No one responded.

He knocked again this time while saying hi really loud before barging into the room.

He was immediately startled, stopping in his tracks because his ex co workers jumped out of no where screaming the word "surprise!" In unison, someone came over carrying a cake while others blew noise makers. Then Luke noticed the wall and it was decorated in balloons, streamers and a sign that said "congratulations Luke" the cake said FUCK CANCER in big bold letters he was perplexed at first.

"Wait what's all this for?" He scratched his head in confusion. "Wait you don't know?" Jessie asked, confused now too.

"No one told you?" Dani questioned.

"What? No one told me anything?"

"Luke.." Helen came walking through the other group of ER nurses in the room. "Luke we got word this morning that you're cancer free."

"What?"

"No?"

"How is that possible?"

Everyone saw the confusion written all over his face it was almost like he didn't want to believe anyone or anything.

"Is this a prank?"

"No. This is the truth."

"But they told me I'm terminal, that
I'm dying."

"No Luke, they were wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"They confused you and another patients records."

"Huh?"