||15 Years Later|| - ||JQH & NHL||
It had been a long night -- having rushed her mother to the emergency room around three in the morning after the older woman who had been visiting had woken up with extreme shortness of breath and was coughing nonstop. Of course, in a panic, Jackie called for an ambulance and escorted her mother to the nearest hospital -- fully unaware of what was awaiting her.
It was just a little past seven when her mother had urged her to go rest though the daughter only insisted she’ll be gone for a few minutes to grab some coffee instead. She couldn’t afford to leave her mother for long despite knowing there was nothing she could do until the doctor they needed arrived from his morning rounds. Hopefully, whoever the doctor was, he wouldn’t have a difficult time understanding her mother’s Mandarin.
With a sigh, the woman purchased a small coffee from the cafeteria down the wing and made her way back to her mother’s room, grabbing some creme on her way out. Not wanting to show her the older woman how fatigued she was, Jackie forced on a small smile and opened the door to her mother’s hospital room.
“Mama, i’m ba-” She begun in Mandarin before stopping in her tracks, noticing a very familiar sight from her past standing at the foot of her mother’s bed. Eyes widened with surprise before softening due to conflicted emotions, Jackie stared at the taller male while trying to get over her initial shock. “N-Nathan...” She couldn’t help but stutter out, but this time in English in order for her mother not to understand. “I... didn’t know you worked here... You’re her doctor?”
