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“Treatment?”
He nodded quickly, almost stumbling over the words as they tumbled from his mouth. “We’ve caught it early, that’s good. There are several options, but I recommend beginning a course of chemotherapy immediately. We can arrange-”
She lifted a hand, not to silence him in rudeness but because she could not bear to hear him recite details she had already dissected a thousand times in her head.
“That won’t be necessary,” she said quietly. Her voice sounded clinical, as if she were discussing the case of someone else entirely. A patient she had no personal attachment to, a specimen under her microscope rather than the container of her own life.
The doctor looked startled, confusion flashing across his face. “Miss Luthor, I know this is difficult to process-”
“I know,” she interrupted, softer now, almost tired, almost weary. “But I know how this works. You can spare me the details.”