Lake:

The doctor let us be, and I settled back into the bench with Jojo. She sat close to me, and even if the doctor said Lucian was fine, I could see her continuously tap her right foot on the ground. I couldn't blame her, she was his mother and no one could understand the might of a mother's love, or a mother's worry.

A second doctor - this time a male one - arrived to cross examine the child, just to make sure that Lucian was ready to come home. Thirty minutes had passed before the door opened in front of us.

The doctor stepped out, two nurses followed...