A/N: So you can add this chapter to the list of why you hate me.
You'll have many more reasons to.
Plus this is something for ChibiRine for her to get well.
@kuro: YES, stay tuned on how they will work it out.@MYJR: ChinParu? Hmmmm, let me see.
@kairi: *wiggles eyebrows*
Well Yui is the genius in her team.The aftermathThey were let free after her little fiasco with her head still reeling, she headed for the showers cause mainly she smells like puke, and also she wanted to calm her nerves down and only hot water will do that.
She let the water wash over her, she still couldn’t forget the look on her ex-wife’s face. “Why does she have to be here. Off all the places, why here?” Haruka hanged her head, she sighed. “We ended a marriage, how will we even work with each other without us sticking a scalpel at each other’s throats?” Haruka sighed again, she ran a hand through her head, grimacing on the thought.
She closed the shower, wrapping a towel around her hair and her body. She was surprised to see her teammate stripping as she exited the shower room and proceeded to her locker, opening her locker she saw her doctor’s coat, it took so much to get that coat, many sleepless nights reviewing, the amount of coffee that she had to drink, working in the day and studying at night, and now she has this beautiful doctor’s coat with her name stitched on it, she run her fingers over the stitches smiling to herself like the idiot she is, “Well shit.” She cursed to herself, remembering that she doesn’t have anything to wear, unless she wanted to wear that puke-stained dress that she calls clothes.
She hesitated for a while glancing over her teammate, “She looks like she has a lot of clothes to spare.” Haruka whispered to herself.
She turned around to face her teammate that was now combing her perfect hair.
“Ano, can I borrow a top for a while? I really didn’t come prepared.” Haruka said avoiding her teammate’s gaze.
“Sure.” She said, rummaging through her locker. “Let’s see, oh this blue top will really make your eyes pop.” she said as she handed over the blouse to Haruka.
“T--Thank you. Ahh, We haven’t formally introduced yet. I’m Yokoyama Haruka.” Haruka politely bowed.
“My name is Miyuki. Watanabe Miyuki.” Miyuki said flashing her an eye smile.
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“Ahh, it’s a good thing that I found you Yokoyama-san.” Nurse Kawaei said. “The chief is looking for you, she told me to escort you to her office, when you’re done changing.”
“Er, okay.” Haruka said following the nurse to the Chief’s office.
It was just a short walk from the Doctor’s lounge to the Chief’s office, the nurse rapped on the door. “Chief, Yokoyama Haruka is here.” she said as she held the door for Haruka.
Haruka bowed, her hands trembling and her knees was already turning into jelly.
Chief Itano just eyed her from head to toe, twirling her pen in her fingers, with her chin in her hand. “Yokoyama Haruka, drunk and late on the first day.” she smirked. “Do you have any brain cells left in that head of yours? Did you know that you have work today?” she asked.
Haruka just nodded guiltily
“Oh you did?” Tomomi smirked. “And yet you go and get drunk a night before your first day as an intern, puke all kinds of food and alcohol on me, to top that off you even slapped me. You are incompetent, and sloppy. I rather have you out of my ER rather than humiliate me and the rest of your group further. Will you be able to carry that to your grave huh Yokoyama? Knowing that you ruined the dreams of other people? Just quit now, and spare them the humiliation.” she was standing now, eying the taller woman in front of her. “Why did you even want to become a doctor?”
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She was still raving on and on how unfair and cruel fate can be, she was headed to the rooftop to unload her anger. She slammed the door shut, making sure that there was no one else with her.
She screamed as loud as she can. “WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME?” she gripped the rails, her eyes looking for and answer in the sky but it remained as silent as ever and as cloudless as it can be, as if it was mocking her. She slapped her face, “Come on Yui wake up from your crack pot dream. You are dreaming, wake up, wake up.” she hit her face harder this time, “Fuck.” she cursed herself through gritted teeth. “I will do everything in my power to make her leave. And I mean that. YOU HEAR ME? I WILL DO EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!” she shouted at the sky shaking her fist at it.
The sky let out a small rumble as if to laugh at her.
She went back to the ER looking for her teammates, and found all of them huddled in front of a door eavesdropping to a private conversation.
“Oy, what’s going on here?” She asked placing a hand on her hip.
“It looks like that baka woman will be fired.” Airi said.
“Yea, she’ll just endanger each of us in getting and F.” Sayanee pouted.
Yui just put her hands on her hips “If you guys have time to hang out here then you have time to memorize the ER manual. Go! Chop chop ladies.” Yui said shooing the group away.
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“Well?” She asked raising an eyebrow. “You can’t tell me your answer? Then quit now, and get out of my ER.”
Haruka can’t stop her tears anymore, her legs gave out as she kneeled in front of the chief, letting her tears flow freely, “Chief, I know I made a huge mistake, please give me one more chance, I can’t quit now. It took so much for me to get here. It was so hard for me to pass that internship exam.” Haruka pleaded the chief looking her directly in the eye.
Tomomi just sighed, “People like you won’t have the guts to make it. Someone of your lineage has no right, no talent or attitude to become a doctor. Sure you took that entrance exam two-three times to get into a medical school, but you won’t last here. So better quit now, you’ll end up thanking me in the future, now get up and leave.”
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When she cracked the door slightly open she wasn’t prepared to witness this, Haruka just kneeled in front of the chief and begged, and her ex-wife doesn’t beg. But to see her in tears, it softened Yui a bit.
She was still sobbing her eyes were already red and puffy from spilling tears, “Is it because I graduated from a no-name school? Or because I have bad grades?”
“What?” Tomomi tilted her head.
“I get that everyone here studied for six years while I just studied for four years, Do I really have no right, no talent and no attitude to become a doctor?” Haruka wiped her face free of tears.
“Ahh what I meant is... That’s not what I meant okay?” the chief said avoided looking at Haruka’s tear-stained face.
Haruka shook her head, “I thought that the school or grades didn’t matter here. I maybe stupid and slow, but I can definitely do it. I know I can, you only have to give me another chance.”
Yui shook her head and sighed as she closed the door. “Aish, why must I go soft on her? But she still has to go.”
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“It would be hard from here you know.” Tomomi sighed.
“I know that it will be hard from here, and it will only get worse. It will be difficult for me, but I don’t care. I’m not giving up, I finally found my life, and I’m not losing it immediately.”
Tomomi sighed again.
“I passed the entrance exam for this hospital fair and square, so if you really want me to leave this hospital please go through the proper procedure to fire me. But I will take the entrance exam again and keep taking it until I get accepted again.” Haruka said choking back another sob.
Tomomi shook her head, “Get up.” but Haruka didn’t budge, “Aren’t you getting up?”
Haruka was slowly getting up, but the long time that she kneeled has numbed her legs. Haruka fell down dragging Tomomi’s pants.
“Oy, let go.” Tomomi said as she wrestled for Haruka to let go.
“I’m sorry.” Haruka said as she finally loosened her grip and stood properly with her legs that still wobbled.
The chief fixed her coat, “You know what we call stupid interns like you? A rock, and since you are a big idiot, you are one big rock, Get it?”
“Big rock.” Haruka repeated with a salty face.
“Hey, hey. Don’t make that face. From now on you’re rock salt. BIG ROCK SALT. Get on my nerves again and you’ll be gone here before you can even say Scalpel.”
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“It was that moment when she threw up on chief Itano! I guess she drank so much that night. Don’t even start me on what she smells.” Nurse Kawaei recounted last nights incident. “And if it wasn’t for the chief she would have a hole in her neck now.”
All of the interns surrounding the nurse grimaced.
“And, after we saved her from death, when the chief checked on her again,” she clapped her hands “She slaps the chief in her sleep, mumbling that she hates the chief.”
Yui shook her head, this is so like her ex-wife. “She never changed. Not even one bit.” she thought.
Seeing her emerge from the Chief’s room, Sayaka let out a fake cough to alert her co-interns, “Ahh, look at the time.” She said as she and the others avoided Haruka, leaving Yui alone with her at the nurse’s station.
Haruka paid them no mind as she browsed through the ER manual.
Yui slowly approached her and stood behind her, “We need to talk.” Yui said through gritted teeth.
But Haruka just ignored her.
“Let’s talk you idiot, come on follow me.” Yui said tugging at Haruka’s coat sleeve.
Haruka faced her ex-wife with a blank face, “Just who are you exactly?” she said.
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“Ugh. Let go of me.” Haruka protested but Yui’s grip on her arm is iron tight, dragging her into the empty stairwell.
Yui glanced around, making sure that they were the only ones there.
“Are you crazy?” Haruka said nursing her wrist.
“How can you be here?” Yui asked staring at Haruka.
“Well, let’s see, I passed the test you big dolt. You should’ve just stayed in the US instead of coming back here. And why does it have to be here huh, don’t you have some super fancy hospital?” Haruka said.
“How did you even get in here? Did you strip just to pass the test?” Yui said raising an eyebrow at her.
“What do you even mean by that?” Haruka asked offended with her ex-wife’s words.
“I mean that you don’t belong here, and you need to run along and just leave. That is what I am saying.” Yui spat her words, “I mean who would be crazy enough to trust you with a scalpel when you don’t even know how to use a knife properly? I know I won’t.” She chuckled, “Now please Haruka, quit now. For the sake of saving the people here.” Yui said faking a pleading look.
“You know what, I’ll become a great doctor,” Haruka said, “And you know what the best part is?” she asked. “You can watch me become a great doctor, while you just stay the jerk you really are.”
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