Date: Fall 2012
Characters: Dae-Mun 'Jimmy' Lee, Candice Wilmer
Summary: After
the fight on the docks, Jimmy goes to pick Candice up from the hospital.
Status: Complete
Private
Whenever she passed through those doors, she had a choice. Not when going in, because procedure was procedure and from Day One she'd complied, but when leaving. She'd seen women twice her age, twice her size, cry their eyes out in the waiting room, either dreading the upcoming visit or mourning its passing. She'd seen Operatives she knew from work collapse in tears. She'd seen people embrace and whisper sweet nothings over dead ovules.
She wasn't going to be quite so pathetic.
"Your last visit, Miss Wilmer?" enquired the nurse at the front desk, all misplaced sweetness that Candice wanted to erase with her fists.
She nodded curtly, waiting for her ID to be returned. No more monthlies for her. Outside, in the glare of midday light that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere all at once, she slipped her sunglasses on, covering her eyes. She knew he would be there, waiting in a different kind of anteroom. She'd half-hoped he'd be late.