You Had Me at Goodbye

Something You Must Know

Chaeyoung was having a little chat with Mr. Montgomery, a sweet old man, one of her old patients who was about to undergo his chemotherapy session that morning, when she was paged to go down to the ER, which is a rare occasion considering her being a haematologist-oncologist whose patients have mostly been registered for a long-term period of times, not someone you rush into an ER kind.

But she marches her way to the ER nonetheless; as if somebody is chasing her tail and she has to step into the ER immediately to be finally safe. She desperately moves her legs as her mind jumbles up with so many worried thoughts and letting curses take turns in her mind because she cannot move humanly faster enough for the sake of her own mind, to calm the bad feeling she has regarding the unusual paging.

Every doctor, nurse, and staff in The Winchesters Memorial Hospital where Chaeyoung now works recognise dr. Lalisa Manoban as dr. Roseanne Park's best friend, so it is only fitting that they automatically just knew whom to page when they saw the woman rushed into the ER unconscious, sinking into a fair amount of her own pool of blood accompanied by a mortified petite woman who did not move even the slightest finger on her hands until a doctor snapped her out of it and she was practically dragged by the nurses to give the professionals some space.

Jennie cannot fathom the whole thing.

She does not know what happened; it was happening all too quickly and she does not understand what she did wrong. They were learning how to ride a bike. A bike! For crying out loud and now she is biting her nails trying to figure out if Lisa will be alright. She does not even know whom to call, she is completely out of her mind because what Lisa is having right now is nothing she has ever seen or expected to see ever. Lisa literally burst her nose out with blood and just fell unconscious on her. The drying bloodstain on her jacket is the silent evidence of how chaotic it had been and how chaotic her heart rhythm currently is.

While Chaeyoung, who finally manages to land her arse into the ER, has to stop her steps as the abstract figure, whom a nurse pointed out to be the one who came in with Lisa, grows concrete in her vision.

Jennie Kim.

She wonders why she is not as surprised as her logic says she should.

"They said she came in with you."

It is the gentlest voice Chaeyoung can voice out to the woman she cannot believe is there, while the woman who finally hears a familiar voice knocking her out of her own consuming train of thoughts hitches a breath of relief. Jennie turns around to see her haematologist standing at her back looking at her with an expression she cannot read.

Jennie met Chaeyoung, whom she knows as dr. Park, about a year prior when she was rushed into the ER and directly brought to the OR after the fatal accident happened to her and her family.

Jennie had quite a severe cervical fracture where a bone in her neck was broken, the same went to her right leg, and there were bleedings in the majority parts of her body. Moreover, she got a massive trauma on her head from the accident causing an acute subdural hematoma on her head that she was urgently rushed to an OR for surgery to drain the blood under her skull.

Jennie was not moving halfway through the night, she was so critical and seemed to be on the verge of stepping to the other side that most nurses and staff believed that she would join her parents who could not even make it to the hospital and that she would not make it through the night.

That was where Chaeyoung came in, took care of the head trauma although it was not her place in the first place, then together with dr. Kim—who was the neurosurgeon on call that night—made sure that before dawn, Jennie could already breathe rhythmically in order with the help of an oxygen mask under 24/7 surveillance in ICU, but stable nonetheless. When she woke up, the first person she saw was dr. Park, who sat by her bed making sure she did not suddenly crash down and go brain-dead as dr. Kim suggested may happen to the poor lass and Jennie knew she owed her life to the woman.