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Charles is the young boarding school student who volunteers at his family owned private hospital during his breaks. he mostly hangs around the children's ward, entertaining the kids. but there's this one patient in the neuro wing that he visits everyday before he goes home. this patient is in a coma (i know,right?! XD) but he reads to him, regardless. Charles is very attached to Jane Austen, so he reads her novels to this man.
years after, the patient is a normal person who works as a trauma surgeon at Xavier's Medical Institute. always grumpy, always testy, always sadistic to the interns, but have a soft spot for Jane Austen and when he closes his eyes he can hear a voice reading the words to him. he calls that voice his Austen muse.
and one day, he hears that voice. this time, its not from inside his own head.
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I think my heart melted a little from all the love in this prompt.
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Charles loves his mother. He really does. When it matters she is there for him, and has done her best by him. She is reliable and has taken care of him as best as she can. Though the meaningless string of boyfriends is perhaps something he could do without. They way she forgets that she has a son who is still a child despite how mature he may sound, is another thing he could live without too. But she’s his mother and so he loves her as much as a teenager could.
But when she asks him, well, more like demands of him to attend a dinner party she’s hosting in the evening, he declines her request. And when that doesn’t work, he outright lies to her claiming he’s promised to help out at the hospital and the head nurse will be expecting him at the children’s ward. It’s not that he doesn’t want to be in company of mother and her high society friends, with their elegance and sophistication as they wax poetics about mother’s diamonds.
He knows what she’s like.
It’ll be another opportunity for her to show off her prodigious son, the ( ... )
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anyway.
I LOVE THE BEGINNING! I REALLY DO! more importantly, i'm pleased that you made to be 14 :D very very pleased indeed. it -i dunno- gives a lot of time for adjustments and recovery. -squeal- ohhhh God bless you anon. XXX
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Part of the charm of the children’s ward is it feels less like a section of a hospital and more like a child’s playroom. It’s bright and cheerful, painted with warm colours with different scenes depicted on each wall.
There are numbers painted on the floor for hopscotch, rocket and moons and stars decorating the entrance hall at the front and toys scattered around the floor and around the numerous beds. They even have a classroom staffed by teachers on the far end for some of the older kids. And they have a Disney room on the floor above for some of the older girls.
Charles is bent over, pretending to be Snake as a nurse reads The Gruffalo, hissing his way across the floor with as much dignity as one can muster, except it’s hard with James laughing at him, his IV bag on the pole following him as he follows Charles ( ... )
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