ASCLEPIUS

56

"Want to plant something on me?"
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7 hours
and
56 minutes
in to
24 hour
shift

After the whole angry Jin incident, you needed to busy your mind with something else.

The children's ward wasn't that far and children can make a person extremely busy.

The ward was also very colourful and full of donated toys. Anyone could tell that it was a children's ward.

"I want to be a firefighter! And drive a fire truck!" A little girl yelled from her hospital bed beside the window. It seemed she had just spotted a fire truck passing by which lead her to exclaim her life goals.

Looking over your shoulder from cleaning up the messy shelves of story books, you noticed that she was very young, around the age of five maybe.

"You can't be a firefighter! You're too sick to be one!" A boy stated from his bed across the room where he played on his tablet.

That's when you noticed the many tubes attached to her neck.

It wasn't long for the girl to look down sorrowfully while grazing her fingers along the tubes.

"Watch your tongue, Seungjae. She's going to get better and save you from a fire one day" you warned while continuing to clean the shelves.

You heard a little 'hmph!' Come from the little boy and you turned your head to see that the girl was now smiling and looking outside the window again.

A slight feeling of accomplishment filled you as you stood up after finishing up with the shelf. You looked around the ward and saw how lively the children were. Anyone wouldn't think that they were all sick with the way that they were so happy all the time.

You now knew why Hoseok loved to come here all the time.

However, you couldn't imagine how it must feel when he would need to break bad news to them.

Afterall, not everyone gets a happy ending.

Even though you were practically so used to being in a hospital because of your parents, it was never for good reasons.

Now that you're a working as a doctor, it didn't seem to change at all.

Sighing to yourself, you thought that coming here would help you unwind a little but instead, it brought unwanted memories.

Suddenly, the door opened up to reveal a nurse pushing a very familiar child in a wheel chair.

It was the boy who would always escape the ward and got you in to a lot of trouble with Doctor Jung.

You remembered his name to be Minhyuk.

"Ah, Doctor L/N! Its good you're here, can you take Minhyuk?" Fumbling over your words, you realised that it was to take him to his bed.

"A-Ah, yes! Sure thing" and with that, the nurse quickly left after bowing in thanks.

Your eyes fanned over the solemn kid who looked to have received the worst news ever.