Dotty Nolan is the daughter of director Christopher Nolan. The day before she and her father would be going to France to start the production of the film 'Dunkirk', she accidentally texts the wrong person after saving her friend's number in wrong. I...
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As Dotty and Chris entered the door to their home, Emma came striding out of the kitchen with her hands firmly on her hips, an expression of both anger and relief spread across her face. Behind her, Fionn followed and looked at Dotty in relief as she placed her shoes on the rack.
"Where have you been?!" Emma shrieked and neither one of the two could tell who she was yelling at, whether it was her daughter, her husband or perhaps both, it was hard to tell. "You just upped and left after a phone call! Then you don't answer your phone! First Dotty and then you! You were gone for days Christopher Nolan!" Chris shared a look with his daughter who shrugged with her eyes wide open in shock. "I was worried half to death. Poor Fionn had me stressing down the phone at him and came right over. You have a lot of explaining to do! You both have."
"Come on, love, let us get through the door first. Dot's knackered." Chris said shuffling forward, his hand on his daughter's back leading her through the hall.
"Dotty's knackered? I'm knackered! I had no idea where either of you was!"
Chris shook his head, "Darling, please, calm down. So much has happened."
Emma nodded her head, letting the two pass as she and Fionn followed the two into the living room. Dotty moved away from her father and rushed into Fionn's arms whilst her parents sat down. Fionn held her tightly, his cheek pressed against hers taking in the feeling of her being back in his arms. Yet despite all of this, his heart still pounded one to the dozen as the thought of her being missing still rushed around his mind.
Fionn, unfortunately, had to pull away so that they could get to the bottom of what had happened but as he did so the first words he had uttered in the past few moments were, "you smell like a hospital."
Sheer panic struck Emma who leapt up from her seat and took a sniff of her daughter. "Why do you smell like that? Dorothy Adelaide Nolan, why do you stink of a hospital?"
Dotty's lip quivered and she backed away from the pair as her eyes welled up with tears. her hands began to shake like a leaf and all she could do was turn to her father who pulled her onto the sofa beside him, bringing her into his arms and holding her as tears slipped down her cheeks.
"Dot?" Fionn asked quietly, his voice laced with confusion as he watched his girlfriend cry in her father's arms. "What happened?"
The girl didn't speak. Instead, she burrowed her head into her dad's chest refusing to look up as he explained everything to the two. Emma dropped to her knees in front of her family, her whole world turning upside down at the news of her daughter's heart disease. This happened to other families, not hers. Not her daughter.
Fionn's heart ripped in two. He had already lost his mother, he did not need to lose his girlfriend too. He was so thankful for Jack and Andrew for helping Dotty, for getting her to the hospital because if they hadn't the issue would not have been discovered and anything could have happened. He sat on the sofa beside Dotty as Emma perched on her husband's lap, the family embraced in a hug and he was surprised when Christopher brought him into it as well.
